Word: decking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every segments of the Harvard community made its contribution to the was effort. The Navy Wives Club met on the "second deck" of the Harvard Union. The Fine Arts Department offered courses in camoflauge, athletics were compulsory and an air-raid siren was placed atop Widener Library...
...switch to Young America gave Conner's team less than a week to learn to sail the new boat, but that was less risky than sailing the sluggish Stars & Stripes against the swift Black Magic I. "Young America's deck layout is different, but we're getting used to it," said Trenkle. "It's like getting a new car and the knobs are not where you think they...
Because the Orioles went down 1-2-3 in the top of the first, leaving Ripken standing on deck, it wasn't until he had completed the bottom of the first in the field that Game No. 2,010 became official. Barring rain-outs, work stoppages or, heaven forbid, an injury, Ripken should surpass Gehrig with No. 2,131 on Sept. 6 in Baltimore. Andy Van Slyke, newly signed by the O's to play center field, is excited but slightly anxious about playing with Ripken: "What if we collide on a short fly ball? What if I knock...
...night was moonless, the kind of darkness that pilots liken to flying into a black hole. On the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lieut. John ("Tuba") Gadzinski inched the F-14 Tomcat forward so a deck crewman could hook it to the catapult that would hurl the fighter skyward at 260 km/h. In the Tomcat's backseat, radar-intercept officer Lieut. (j.g.) Kristin ("Rosie") Dryfuse glanced out the cockpit to another deckhand holding a lighted box that flashed "66,000 lbs.," (30 metric tons) the plane's weight. Dryfuse circled her flashlight to signal that the weight was correct...
...dancing, lovey-dovey pairs could gaze into each other's eyes at their convenience on the upper deck overlooking the sea of gyrating bodies. I found this situation a bit sickening. No, scratch that bit part. The abundance of pawing and slobber really made me want to puke...