Word: decking
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PRINCETON, N.J.-The deck had been stacking up against the Harvard men's hockey team, with two dreadful periods against Yale last Saturday and a 60-minute stinker against Northeastern in the Beanpot opener Monday...
...Radio Stolen: Blauplunkt AM-FM cassette deck and amplifies was reported taken from a silver BMW in the Peabody Terrace garage between Feb.1 and 2, police reported this week...
...Crimson had just won one of its last seven ECAC games, and second-place Yale was on deck. Harvard needed a quick confidence-builder, and Dartmouth seemed only too pleased to oblige. The result: a 4-0 victory that lifted the icemen's ECAC record to 6-7-1 (6-9-1 overall...
Every morning deckhands check the barges for leaks. It takes Phil Popham. 23, about 30 minutes to inspect the 15 barges hooked up to the Cooperative Vanguard. He moves gingerly across each slippery deck, shovels snow from the manhole covers that conceal the eleven-foot-deep buoyancy compartments, and peers inside with his flashlight for telltale ice or water. He passes the rest of the day reading dog-eared copies of Playboy, Popular Mechanics and western novels by Louis L'Amour...
Would that they could all stay the storm gathering around them as easily as they calm the savage breasts of the stokers in the boiler room, for whom they stage an impromptu concert. All of these events may be read as portents. The deck is soon crowded with Serbian refugees, some of them revolutionaries, and their presence brings down upon the Gloria N. an Austro-Hungarian battleship and a noisy climax to what can best be described as an exercise in, perhaps even a parody of, the opera buffa...