Word: decking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After we sailed south to avoid the storm, Khrushchev began to spend more time on deck. Once I saw him standing alone, leaning on the ship's railing and looking through his binoculars at the bright ocean. Just as I approached him his arm slipped and he lost his balance. I held him up. He turned to me and said with a gay sparkle in his eyes, "If I were to fall overboard that wouldn't be a calamity. Right now we aren't too far from Cuba, and they'd probably receive me there better than the Americans will...
Hernmarck's work often conveys high emotional drama. In Sailing, which she created in 1976 for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, it is the drama of grand romantic painting. A ship's sails billow to their utmost; the sailors on deck strain as fiercely as the wind itself. By contrast, her giant (20 ft. by 11 ft.) tapestries Poppies and Bluebonnets (1979) for an office building in Dallas have the lazy, midsummer-day haze of a Monet...
...soon started up, shrieked metal on metal and moved on. The sea continually changed color and direction, the sun laying a slice of silver on the horizon, which faded to a dull blue a moment later. In the office a boyish customs officer played rock music on his tape deck on a plastic table: "I've got you, baby./ You've got me." He did not mind the presence of a visitor. "Breaks the boredom," he said...
...three crew members seated on the flight deck ... the first real indicator of the orbiter's reentrance into the atmosphere is the quivering needle of the G-meter. For days, the needle has been fixed at zero, as if it were painted on the dial. Now it shudders to life and slowly begin to rise. Then there is an unmistakable whisper of rushing air, at first almost too faint to hear, then louder and louder still A faint red glow appears at the edges of the cockpit windows, then spreads across them and seems to curl up over...
There was a time when a Navy man talked like a sailor. He cooked in the galley and ate on the mess deck. If he got out of line he was thrown into the brig. But in the 1970s the Navy adopted the language of landlubbers. The galley became a kitchen; the mess deck was termed the enlisted dining facility; the brig was transformed into a correctional facility. Even the snappy BOQ, Bachelor Officers' Quarters, gave way to unaccompanied officer personnel housing...