Word: decking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost on the button waited the carrier Lake Champlain. Just before Shepard's launch, five Marine helicopters had buzzed from her deck to stand by for his arrival. Their crews had trained for a year for this moment; they were experts at hovering over a Mercury capsule, snagging it with a giant, steel shepherd's crook and getting its astronaut on board quickly. One of the skilled crook handlers, Lieut. George Cox, had fished the Astrochimp Ham out of the drink last...
Last week Harvard returned to the victory column by fighting off a strong challenge by M.I.T. to win by a deck length on the Charles. This week Coach K. C. Chase remarked, "We still have a lot of potential for improvement...
...varsity, using the same lineup that lost to Navy last week, sprinted home a scant deck length ahead of the Engineers after leading by half a length with three-quarters of a mile remaining. The Crimson covered the Henley distance in 6:57.4 despite a troublesome cross-wind...
...Chicago's suburban Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit at Elk Grove Village: "Each of Dr. Bonnell's points can be demonstrated separately, but if the Protestant hope for a larger place in the sun is based on these indicators, it just isn't in the deck. For one thing, the population explosion goes against it; most of the children being born into the world are not and never will be Christian. The population's mobility goes against it; a mobile Protestant population can't sink profound religious roots. And the intellectual communication necessary...
developed their own three-deck, 15-auto...