Word: decking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Roiling seas and winds gusting to 40 knots buffeted the bark on its first night out of Bermuda, but when Andrew Freeman, 22, of Wallasey, England, finished his watch at 4 a.m., the fury had apparently subsided. "For some reason I stayed up on deck," he recalled later. "The boat was sailing along really well and fast, and it was a nice feeling to be up there." That decision probably saved his life. "Those below did not stand a chance," said Philip Sefton, 22, also from Britain, who was at the helm. He described the deathly blow that struck...
Everyone on deck was catapulted into the dark, heaving sea. "As she went under I levered myself onto the rail and was swept clear as she went under me," Sefton remembers. "As I stood on the poop rail I thought, 'Jump!' I went under water for a few seconds. A life raft was 30 ft. away. I thought, 'Oh God, swim!' " The orange rafts were designed to eject and inflate automatically in an emergency, and they did. Clifton McMillan, 16, of Fairfield, Conn., who had just finished his watch when the squall hit, managed to jump...
...stepping into office at is propitious time for change--if it's change you want--since Dean Rosovsky has already cleared the deck of some difficult issues. The hoopla over the Core Curriculum has finally calmed down, and the program is firmly in place. After years of souring deficits, the Faculty budget is back to equilibrium and seems to have weathered the worst of this decade's inflation. During his last year in office, Rosovsky turned attention to a number of important long-range issues that you would be wise to pursue vigorously--undergraduate teaching, the status of junior faculty...
...Iacocca's pleading is not what caused me to make a contribution to the rebuilding of the Statue of Liberty. It was remembering that cold February day in 1923 when my steamboat entered New York Harbor and I bounded up on deck to get a good look at the old girl as she greeted...
...cellar toward the pennant. But he becomes a true hero to modernist eyes only when, ambiguously but courageously (and with a good woman's help), he achieves awareness of what his life and adventures mean. In literary circles this is known as coming to consciousness; in the on-deck circle it is known as growing...