Word: decking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plentiful; in the winter when the steady hands return and things tighten up, it may be months before someone in Group II (the best a college man ever achieves) could get a job. Most ship in the Steward's Department, where the money is; the more adventuresome may ship deck; no one ever goes through the engine room, which is hell in summer and on southern runs...
...romanticizing the life from the first, and it's necessary to counteract the impression immediately. If one word could characterize the vast majority of the hours, it would be boredom. In the Steward's Department, life is usually like that of any large hotel. Deck is more interesting, but you still sleep eleven hours a day, and would sleep more if you could. I've never met an officer who felt he had chosen the right career; for the crew, it's just wage-slavery. Hours on end I've looked into the wake, occasionally thinking but mostly glad...
...Schwab continued to row several strokes lower than Columbia and Rutgers, and his boat pulled away for good just after passing under the Harvard bridge. Neck and neck with Rutgers for the whole Henley distance of a mile and five sixteenths, Columbia squeezed into second place by a deck-length in the last few strokes of the race...
...telescope above nearly all of the earth's atmosphere. An automatic pointing device locked on the sun and used it as a reference point to focus the telescope on Venus. Then the telescope photographed the spectrum of solar infra-red light reflected from the top of the cloud deck...
Analysis of the spectra showed that above its cloud deck, the Venusian atmosphere has about 9.8 milligrams of water vapor per square centimeter. This is not much, but it is not far from the amount that is believed to exist above a comparable level in the earth's atmosphere...