Word: decking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last jet was shot off, Hanley snapped awake, suddenly aware of a strange hissing noise coming from the giant hydraulic catapult mechanism on the deck just over his head. He was hardly out of bed before he felt the soft concussion of a flash-fire explosion, then the rending blast of a second that shook Big Ben from stem to stern...
...make matters worse. Big Ben's powerful ventilating system began to pump explosive fumes and heavy smoke through the ship. As far down as the sixth deck, the blast jammed the airtight doors. The eight men on duty in damage control put wet rags over their faces and went about their critical work of relaying messages from the bridge to the fire fighters, as their oxygen supply dwindled. "This is my last breath," one of them gasped over his headset-and it was. With agonizing slowness, rescue parties cut through the wreckage...
...began a ship-to-shore ambulance service. Fires were under control by 8, but as the carrier glided up Narragansett Bay at 12:30 p.m. for her homecoming, rescue parties were still prowling through the blackened compartments, and the dead, shrouded in white blankets, were spaced across the hangar deck...
...Wednesday he said, "For the first time since I got into this fight to expose Communists, I'm sort of at a loss to know what course to take. I think the White House made a great mistake. I'm willing to play with any kind of deck they use, but I don't like to see my staff up against a stacked deck." Thursday the Senator was punching harder and lower. "This is the first time I've ever seen the executive branch of the Government take the Fifth Amendment," he said, and charged that...
...Newcomer Dewey Martin. Wynn is excellent as a retread veteran who wants to come out of the war with honor, but alive, and is therefore fated for an early death -shown in an appalling sequence, taken from official Government film, of the crash of a plane on a flight deck...