Word: decking
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Suddenly a cry bursts out: "Everybody on deck!" Off tiny Guinchos Cay in the Atlantic, 20 miles north of Cuba...
...needed on the double to lower some 7,000 sq. ft. of sail so Westward will be moving slowly as it leaves the safety of deep water. The sophomores and juniors, drawn from two dozen U.S. colleges, drop their pens and scramble to their stations, some grabbing halyards on deck, others swinging into the ratlines 20 ft. above...
Voyaging through the Caribbean (and off Nova Scotia, where Westward cruises in summer) sounds glamorous indeed, but aboard ship the glamour blurs. Students average only four hours of sleep a night and whirl through a torrent of classes, experiments and deck duties...
...consumer electronics business has produced some fierce marketing wars, but none is likely to be quite so cutthroat as the struggle that is starting for control of the videodisc industry. Videodisc players look much like any stereo deck, but, plugged into a TV, they play prerecorded movies, sports events, opera, sitcoms and documentaries. They promise to advance significantly the cause of viewers' lib, giving TV addicts freedom to watch what they want when they want to watch...
...What we are not going to do is play this game with all the cards face up on the deck." (He did not say whether the cards might be face up on the table...