Word: decking
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...sails serenely into the atomic age, with a rich mixture of smoke pouring from her stacks. Her paint and brightwork are spick-and-span. Lights burn brightly from every porthole, and occasional snatches of music float out. Her passengers, sports-dressed and bullion-blessed, spend seemingly endless hours on deck playing shuffleboard...
...that the LSMR was not designed as a pleasure craft. In the calmest seas, it shook like a dog emerging from a bath; in hurricane weather, it performed better, sloughing wildly over the long sea swells-but it was worth a man's life to step out on deck...
...commissioning in Bremerton Navy Yard, the Navy appropriately christened its prototype ship the U.S.S. Carronade, after a snub-nosed naval cannon developed in Scotland in 1779. The Carronade looks sawed in half-it has an awesome, cruiser-like bow with eight rocket launchers planted on a forward deck which slants downward to the steel-skinned superstructure, then ends abruptly. It looks, in the words of the Carronade's crewmen, like "a bobtailed cruiser...
...breezy deck of the liner Queen Elizabeth, just before they sailed for Europe, Trumpeter James Caesar Petrillo, loud-tooting czar of the A.F.L. musicians, shot the breeze with one of his most distinguished rank-and-filers, Violin Virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin. Subject oft their chat: the merits of forming a United Nations orchestra. Petrillo was heading for an international labor powwow in Vienna; Menuhin, between concerts in Europe, could get in some hot licks on a forthcoming book about his recent odyssey. Tentative title: Around the World on a G-String...
...thrown or batted with the crosse (lacrosse stick); there is no rule against kicking it either. The rugged character who breaks for the goal while cradling the ball in his stick runs a gauntlet of swinging sticks. Sooner or later he is sure to hear the loud battle cry: "Deck him!" For, by and large, body checking is also perfectly legal...