Word: decking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. George Francis Hicks, 60, radio and TV announcer for NBC since the 1930s, best known for his stirring D-day description of the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, coolly broadcasting from the deck of the command ship A neon while under severe attack by Nazi bombers; of cancer; in Queens...
There are no beds-only mattresses on the deck. The volunteers sleep like flower petals, with their heads as close to the room's center as they...
...said, "even if it took us farther out." In midocean, Ondine met no frustrating countercurrents and got the benefit of fresh winds. Day after day, she boomed along at a fantastic average speed of 7½ knots. Grim and tense, Long took at least ten sightings a day, sent deck hands scurrying to change sails as often as every 20 minutes...
...teaches "swimming, dancing, weight training, judo, wrestling, fencing," and Course 300, a "historical overview of the European origin of sports, games and gymnastics." The daily schedule of five hours of classwork had its problems. "You'd be writing an exam, and your chair would be sliding across the deck," says Roberta Mount, 18, of Hayward, Calif...
...power in the Commons, out of office from Chartwell, or in War over static-filled radio. And he prevailed. Despite the stooped shoulders, the squat figure, the pudgy features, we see him in a grand tableau of English history. He belongs on the field at Blenheim, on the deck of the Victory, in a hushed Commons because he believed he belonged there...