Word: decking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...December 1956. But for the rest of the 5,500-man Cuban navy, six Russian destroyers are being acquired to add to a pre-Castro flotilla of a dozen U.S.-built corvettes. From seven to ten 40-knot, missile-armed torpedo boats are known to have already arrived as deck cargo from Russia...
...from its rivals and end up looking quite a bit like them. While lead times did not permit Townsend to completely redesign the PLYMOUTH and DODGE, they do look different from the '625, and the main change is a flat roof on each that closely resembles the top deck of Ford's racy Thunderbird. The compact VALIANT is chunkier than in '62 (and looks more like Rambler's successful American); and Dodge's compact LANCER, instead of being a look-alike to the Valiant, is more mas sive. In a confusing name switch, the Lancer...
...Reddish asks who's got The Bear today," sighed "Slim" Jim Robinson, who has had difficulty lasting one round, "and I say, 'Don't tell me until after I've eaten. I want to enjoy my breakfast.' " Onetime Welterweight Champion Barney Ross watched Liston deck another sparring partner five times, wryly suggested that Trainer Reddish import zombies from darkest Africa. "Where else are you going to find training partners? He's the kind that knocks you on the chin and breaks your ankle. He'll knock out Patterson in five rounds...
...expressed by Stanley Baldwin's vow, on resigning as Prime Minister in 1937: "I won't spit on the deck, and I shan't shout at the helmsman...
...Force's 355th Fighter Group in a treetop-level attack on a Luftwaffe airstrip. Suddenly, the Bavarian landscape came alive with orange and black antiaircraft fire. A shell ripped White's engine to bits, spewing globs of oil on the windscreen. Recalls White: "We were on the deck. When the flak caught me. I jettisoned the canopy and jumped. I felt the parachute shock an instant before my feet hit the trees-we were that low. That was my closest call, ever...