Word: decking
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...card game, he turns over one card at a time from the top of a randomly shuffled deck. Students must guess whether the card will be red--if it is, they win a dollar. If it's black, they lose...
...before the Marine Resources Reserve was established for the Galapagos, a foreign fishing vessel was noticed. This ship apparently had permission to fish for shark among the islands. We were suddenly disturbed by the sight of hundreds of shark fins drying on lines strung above the vessel's main deck. That was only a hint of what the future was to bring. Now, because of overfishing, there is a ban on lobstering and the sea cucumber is threatened...
...defense of the accusation that Cochran and the defense had introduced the "race card," he said introducing the race card was impossible because "[the prosecution] held the deck...
...fans as we like," says Mattingly, "but the ones who come have been loud, knowledgeable and supportive." He has a point. At the game on Sept. 20, the crowd cheered louder and louder for starter Sterling Hitchcock as he dazzled the Blue Jays inning after inning. In the upper deck, where a fan could stretch out, enjoy the game and catch a foul ball without much competition, two teenage girls serenaded Yankee batters by mellifluously calling out their names: "Mattingly ... Strawberry...Velarde..." In the Hitchcockian suspense of the ninth inning, the fans were on their feet as the chubby lefthander...
From the 107th-floor observation deck of New York City's World Trade Center, the Statue of Liberty below has the scale and look of a queen on one of those miniature, travel-size chessboards. Ordinarily the deck offers only spectacular vistas. But for the next month or so, visitors will be able to see something else entirely: the Intel World Chess Championship...