Word: decking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tokyo's Yoyogi Park every Sunday, groups of momentarily rebellious adolescents come to perform a strange exhibition. They grease their hair into ducktails and put on black pegged pants and leather jackets, or else polka-dot crinoline skirts, and they group around tape-deck machines and dance to rock 'n' roll: boys with boys, girls with girls. In Japan it is always the group, even in rebellion. The spectacle is strangely sweet...
...countries," it said, "is indivisible and must be approached on a global basis." But the six other leaders immediately recognized the symbolic importance of the Japanese recommendation, which they readily approved. For the first time since 1945, when officers of the imperial Japanese army stood on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri and witnessed their country's surrender, Japan had publicly acknowledged that it was no less involved in the defense of the West than the West was in protecting the island nation. Yet, as soon as Nakasone arrived back in Tokyo he found himself in a crossfire...
...cars, the Chevrolet Citation and the Buick Skylark, and Chrysler's K-cars, the Dodge Aries and the Plymouth Reliant. Developed at a cost of $1billion, the Tempo and Topaz were introduced in May. As part of an extravagant rollout, the cars were launched on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Intrepid, docked at a Hudson River pier in New York City. Said Chairman Philip Caldwell: "We're in a fighting mood...
Several Maracaibo crew members who boarded the 2,383-ton, Cyprus-registered Cloud concluded that it had been abandoned in haste, as if the difference between life and death lay in a few seconds. Shoes, apparently thrown off as the crew jumped into lifeboats, littered the deck. In the mess, food that had been left during an evening meal lay rotting on the tables. The ship's radio was still tuned to the emergency band. Moving deeper into the engine room, the explorers from the Maracaibo got their first clue as to why the Cloud had been abandoned...
...Maracaibo began to tow the Cloud to Turiamo Naval Base, nine Venezuelan infantes, or marines, parachuted onto the deck of the mystery ship. They learned from the engine-room log that the Cloud had picked up its hot cargo in Yugoslavia in March. The last stop, probably only a few hours before the fire, had been Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, 155 miles off the northwest coast of Africa. Venezuelan Defense Ministry officials believe that the Cloud's three British and nine Ghanaian sailors were picked up by a Panamanian liner and taken to Senegal. The Cloud then...