Word: decking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Recife. Following in its wake were three U.S. destroyers and a nuclear submarine. A flotilla of fishing boats and launches jammed with reporters and photographers rose and fell on the choppy waves. From a plane overhead, a dashing French newsman parachuted to land on the Santa Maria's deck. He missed and was hauled from the briny deep by the crew of the U.S.S. Damato...
...with thrilled lady tourists, and apparently added a romantic note that made up for the discomforts of water rationing, badly prepared meals, and a growing sloppiness in the ship's housekeeping. The bitterest reports came from the 447 passengers traveling tourist, who not only stifled in their below-deck cabins but were also finally reduced to eating potatoes and beans. Once ashore, and with transportation to the U.S. or Europe promised by the Portuguese shipowners, the great majority of the travelers seemed to enjoy their adventure in retrospect...
...planned, but the parachutes worked fine. Aircraft swooped toward the spot where the capsule was falling. A Navy plane spotted it while it was still drifting down on its parachutes. In about two hours a helicopter picked up the capsule and 46 minutes later lowered it gently on the deck of the recovery ship Donner...
Eight years after Navy brass tried to push him into premature retirement, Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, father of the atomic submarine, was summoned to the deck of the Nautilus, his first nuclear offspring, to receive the Distinguished Service Medal, highest peacetime award in the Navy's gift. In the six years since Nautilus was commissioned, Rickover's atomic family has grown fast: last week's medal-pinning ceremony was coupled with the keel laying of the Lafayette, 34th ship in the nation's awesomely lethal nuclear underseas fleet...
...from the London School of Economics and Princeton. Playing junior-varsity football at Harvard, he injured his spine, and in the Pacific, during World War II, he picked up malaria. When his PT boat was rammed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Amagri, Kennedy was flung violently to the deck, and his old back injury was aggravated, causing spinal muscle spasms and sciatica...