Word: decking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Slater tried to restrain him, but Waslen escaped and proceded to deck several Crimson players before being ejected from the contest...
When the Harvard women's swimming team emerged on the deck of Blodgett Pool Saturday for its dual meet against Pennsylvania--the last opponent standing between the Crimson and the Ivy League championship--it sounded more like a cheap imitation of the Boston Symphony Orchestra than a soon-to-be champion swim team...
Because when the Crimson (9-1 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) takes to the deck of Blodgett Pool this afternoon at 1 p.m. to face Pennsylvania (7-2-1, 2-2-1), the team will be trying to take not only the Quakers, but also its first-ever Ancient Eight crown...
Monday looked much better. For the second time, the crew members settled into their couches on the orbiter's two decks, just ahead of Challenger's cargo bay. Commander Dick Scobee and Pilot Michael Smith were strapped into the flight deck; behind them were Judith Resnik, an electrical engineer, and Ronald McNair, a physicist. On the middeck below were Ellison Onizuka, an aerospace engineer; Gregory Jarvis, an electrical engineer; and McAuliffe. Lying on their backs, they could see a bright blue sky ahead of them. The countdown reached T (for takeoff) minus nine minutes--and stayed there for four hours...
...other spectators cheered. The countdown was past the point where it had stopped the day before. The mission designed to show that space belonged to everyone finally seemed ready to launch both its schoolteacher and the dreams of the children participating vicariously from their schools. On Challenger's flight deck, roughly the size of a Boeing 747's, Scobee and Smith continued to run through their elaborate checklists. The orbiter's main computer, supported by four backups, continuously scanned all the data from some 2,000 sensors and data points. They would shut down the entire system in milliseconds...