Word: decking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ready to Die. With his flushed, seadog face, his poop-deck voice, his blunt, peppery language, Red Raborn scarcely seemed the type to tackle a job that called for a trained scientist. More important, Raborn was a driving organizer, a demon for efficiency and an able politician. He had done time in almost every branch of his service-aviation, destroyers, gunnery schools-and everywhere he was known as a man with a single-minded urge to get things done. At Pearl Harbor in 1941, his patrol squadron was one of the few loaded with bombs and ready to fight back...
Jones Beach, L.I., Marine Theater: The summer-long sailor spree, Hit the Deck, with Gene Nelson, Jane Kean, Betty Ann Grove, Jules Munshin...
...radio exchange of traditional signals. "Whither bound?'' asked the shore transmitter. The yacht replied: "Destination unknown-high seas." Later that morning, under a brilliant sun, Princess Margaret, in a red sweater and skirt, and Tony Armstrong-Jones, in blue blazer and white slacks, lay back in deck chairs on a secluded sundeck. From the topmost point of the mainmast fluttered Meg's personal standard...
After months of waiting. Disk Jockey Dick Clark-who at 30 is the U.S.'s oldest teen-ager-last week finally was up to his sunny smile in the payola hearings. Standing on the burning deck with aplomb, he assured the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight that he believed in his heart that he had never taken payola. "But you got an awful lot of royola," snapped Republican Steven B. Derounian, of New York's Nassau County, who was the clear winner of the session's Most Valuable Phrasemaker trophy...
...into her unconscious. Author Fifield speculates intriguingly on religious and metaphysical questions. Does the ability to foretell a future event presuppose predestination? Are times past, present and future coeval? These questions are more fully developed than the novel's characters, who seem to exist like cards in a deck, merely to take plot tricks...