Word: decking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speaking of educational reform, Richard H. Hersh, associate dean for teacher education at the University of Oregon, tells a meeting: "We've been rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic...
...growing concern. For all of its sophisticated weaponry, America is facing a shortage of the most valuable military resource of all: manpower. The return of the U.S.S. Nimitz made the point symbolically, and President Carter made it directly as he stood on the nuclear carrier's gigantic flight deck and praised its crew...
...Nimitz was back at last after a nine-month cruise, including 144 consecutive days at sea, most of them spent on patrol in the Indian Ocean. The ill-fated Sea Stallion helicopters had taken off from her flight deck on their attempt to rescue the 53 American hostages from their captors in Iran. Not since World War II had any U.S. warship been at sea so long...
...come here." She has full confidence she will eventually "climb the corporate ladder," and adds that "golf certainly helps, it's a very social game." Though golf has a lot to do with "shaping character," she insists she can live without it, and has no delusions about the stacked deck she must play with in her quest to be a pro golfer. "I think I'm one up on many women on the tour who bank on playing golf the rest of their life. I have a good education...
...rescue raid, by the nightly TV pageant of Iranian mobs pumping their fists in the air and screaming death threats in Farsi, and by the image of Sadegh Ghotbzadeh's cretinous smirk. Dark impulses that normally stay below, like Ahab's harpooners, begin to straggle up on deck...