Word: decking
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When ski racers come to the Middlebury Snow Bowl, they all have to take a playing card from the deck of a queer old lady who rules the mountain. No one is conscious of having taken the card. Sometimes if you look hard you can see aces and deuces fall out of the racers boots when they take them off in the gym where everybody sleeps at the end of the day's skiing. The racers never see the card fall out--they are always in a hurry to get to dinners and the fabulous parties at Sigma Etc. that...
...Novak St. sleds lie sprawled on condominium steps and a few snowmen deck the lawns. Sometimes the children point at the Rath place and whisper about her--while the adults are busy with the New Year. The Rath's new neighbor, Mary Beth Twyman, aged 19, was married two days ago Saturday in Holy Cross Chapel in a waltz-length white peau--de--soire dress and a crown of pink pearls, and as she drove off with her husband in his new model Camaro, a St. Christopher's charm dangled from the rear view mirror. December saw 25 houses finished...
...some individuals are also bringing $ 1 million suits against the Government for failing to protect them. But neither the suits nor any belated medical care that the workers may now receive are likely to alter the odds against their survival. Now that they have been exposed to asbestos, the deck is stacked...
Sophomores and freshmen immediately accept the idea of a student-faculty disciplinary body. It seems, at first glance, that a process which permits students to judge themselves is fair. But the administration has handed the students a stacked deck. Only four students serve on the CRR; seven faculty members watch over them...
...wait until tomorrow. You might be dead then," he implored. His words were identical each night. "Don't let distance keep you from Christ," he'd say, especially to those in the upper deck...