Word: decking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from St. Paul; no stop was scheduled, but a hopeful crowd, some of them sporting handmade posters, had gathered at a nearby lock. When Grechko saw them, he couldn't resist their enthusiasm. As the paddle-wheel steamboat rested in the lock, he climbed across from a starboard deck onto the concrete bank and began shaking hands, accepting pats on the back and handing out small mementos from the Soviet Union, mostly pins and buttons that called for universal peace and an end to the arms race, mostly in Russian. Grechko waited as long as he could before getting back...
...Back on deck, everyone crowded around as Bass and one of the divers opened the plastic container and examined a gold pendant bearing the image of a fanciful star with long wavy rays. "That's Canaanite," said Bass. "No question about it." On a smaller gold pendant was the figure of a woman with a tall headdress, wide skirt and both feet pointed to one side. "The figure's so Egyptian!" exclaimed Bass. "We've had three or four pendants like this on the expedition...
...noxious fumes, had been manually activated. One was identified as Smith's. Since the Challenger pilot, locked into his safety harness, could not have reached the control, it must have been turned on by either Ellison Onizuka or Judith Resnik, who sat behind him on the spacecraft's top deck...
Their contest involves the split between what has become known as "the two Georgias." Jordan, affecting a down-home and folksy style, is popular in the rural areas and farm towns, which still have more than half the state's Democratic primary voters. Standing on the deck of Spivey's pond house near Swainsboro or appearing at a fish fry at Mutt Kennedy's place in Midville, he swaps family tales and corny jokes before giving his stump speech about the need to bring the Democratic Party back to the center...
...boat you could see pagodas in the middle of nowhere, clusters of thatched huts on stilts, and old-fashioned fishing boats. The only thing was that the monks insisted on smoking cheroots while keeping the windows closed, we figured so that they could really feel the difference from the deck and get their money's worth. I locked horns in a head-to-head battle with one old padre, opening my window every time he shut it, and finally leaving one arm hanging out. Hell, I paid my 30 kyats same as the next...