Word: decking
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...Deck!" In three weeks, the terrorists have killed six Americans and maimed 87, several of the latter women and children. The terror wave was believed the work of four-man Viet Cong suicide squads infiltrating the city, and the latest sabotage reflected fanatical planning. On a Sunday night, as 500 Americans watched the absorbing final ten minutes of the murder movie, The List of Adrian Messenger...
...ship right across the Melbourne's bows. Taken by surprise, Stevens had only time to cry "Collision stations!" before the carrier, traveling at top speed of 22 knots, smashed into the destroyer's bridge, cutting the Voyager in two and trapping most of her crew below deck...
Figuring that they could frighten the mutineers into submission with lots of noise, the British cut loose with a predawn barrage of blank charges over Colito barracks. As the sleepy mutineers ducked for cover, helicopters fluttered off the flight deck and dropped 60 combat-ready Royal Marine Commandos onto the rebel base...
...side banged heavily against the ship, and then tipped over and spilled its cargo of passengers into the sea. Other boats had no bungs to plug drains, and survivors had to bail frantically, ripping off clothes that they could stuff into the open bung holes. In the panic on deck, most of the boats, each of which had room for 75 passengers and ten crew, were lowered only partly filled. The rest of the passengers went down the side on ropes or simply leaped from the deck into the sea below...
...fact that few of the crew spoke English, thus causing their intentions to be misconstrued. But it was evident that the fire-fighting procedures were inadequate and that many of the lifeboats had been lowered in panic with only crewmen aboard, leaving the passengers to fend for themselves on deck...