Word: decking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eliminated the inequalities of Western-style jurisprudence and established a fairer system of justice. Evidence to corroborate the claim is almost nonexistent. What the visitor to a Soviet courtroom finds, says a lanky young American visitor named George Feifer, is not fairness but blatantly biased procedures that stack the deck against a criminal defendant...
...indeed. Bavier was worried enough to spend a day practicing starts against Old Master Bus Mosbacher, who skippered Weatherly to a cup victory in 1962; taking the wheel of American Eagle for the first time, Mosbacher beat Bavier to the line four times in a row. Perched on the deck of a nearby cabin cruiser, Scott watched the scrimmage with interest. Back on the dock somebody asked him: "Don't you ever take a day off?" Answered Scott: "I'll think about taking time off when I've got the America's Cup in the locker...
COCA-COLA has a walk-through exhibition that lets you wander down a street in Hong Kong, past the Taj Mahal, up into the Alps, through a Cambodian rain forest, and onto the deck of a cruise ship...
Newport jangled with rumors of arguments among Eagle's crew. Skipper Cox, swallowing earlier statements about "the best crew any 12-meter ever had," bounced veteran Deck Boss John Nichols and one alternate. Concerned about the boat's sluggishness in light air, Eagle Designer Bill Luders narrowed the forward edge of her keel, replaced the lost weight with inside ballast, and reduced the rudder area...
...meeting in the finals, Constellation handed Eagle the worst beating in the history of 12-meter cup competition, winning by a full mile and 11 min. 42 sec. in light winds. A good bit of the margin, moreover, was due to a costly goof by Eagle's reshuffled deck crew; when the jib halyard parted, a new jib was clipped on the wrong way, and it took four minutes to get things straight. By then Constellation was long gone...