Word: decking
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...start in 1982, when Cadillac engaged the venerated Pininfarina firm, best known for its Ferrari body styles, to design the car and build its outer shell. The car's planners searched all over the world for the components, settling on an electronics system from Japan and aluminum hood and deck lid from Switzerland, among other parts. Pininfarina assembles the bodies in a factory near Turin, not far from the Italian Alps, then ships them to Detroit aboard 747 jumbo-jet freighters for outfitting with a high-performance GM engine and transmission...
...fighters provided cover, 20 American attack planes roared off the deck of the U.S.S. Forrestal, heading southward across the Mediterranean. The A-6 Intruders and A-7 Corsairs closed quickly on the North African coast and zeroed in on their target: a desert airstrip encircled by tanks and protected by surface-to-air missiles...
...from St. Paul; no stop was scheduled, but a hopeful crowd, some of them sporting handmade posters, had gathered at a nearby lock. When Grechko saw them, he couldn't resist their enthusiasm. As the paddle-wheel steamboat rested in the lock, he climbed across from a starboard deck onto the concrete bank and began shaking hands, accepting pats on the back and handing out small mementos from the Soviet Union, mostly pins and buttons that called for universal peace and an end to the arms race, mostly in Russian. Grechko waited as long as he could before getting back...
...board and off, the good-natured interchange persisted. Take a Soviet by the arm, bring him or her to a quiet corner and ask whatever burning question comes to mind. No problem. Have a drink together, or dinner; go on deck in the evening and talk about literature or politics, as the light fades and the densely wooded banks of the river grow dark and eerie. One night, somewhere between Prairie du Chien, Wis., and Dubuque, Iowa, Dmitri Agrachev, the cruise's official Soviet interpreter, was playing Scrabble, in English, with three Americans. "It's not a very nice word...
...noxious fumes, had been manually activated. One was identified as Smith's. Since the Challenger pilot, locked into his safety harness, could not have reached the control, it must have been turned on by either Ellison Onizuka or Judith Resnik, who sat behind him on the spacecraft's top deck...