Word: decking
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...close cousin to rummy, which is supposed to teach them arithmetic. Invented by Gertrude Gebbie, an accountant who wanted to help "children who don't have the patience to learn by rote," / Win has the approval of the Chicago board of education, sells retail at 75? a deck. Half a million decks are already...
...fight for the vacation he wanted: rest, golf, fresh air and privacy. When he and Mamie stepped off the Columbine at the moon-bathed Palm Springs Airport, a crowd of 3,000 was on hand to greet them. But plans to deck the streets in bunting and turn the vacation into a chamber-of-commerce carnival were abruptly halted on a suggestion from the White House. The official welcoming ceremonies were brief, and the list of greeters was cut down (to the anguish of many California politicos) to Governor Goodwin Knight and a few top Republicans. Within 36 hours...
...family of a widowed vicar (Ralph Richardson) comes home for Christmas. As the clergyman's children deck the halls with boughs of "that darn holly." prickly problems also strew the scene. One daughter (Celia Johnson), who feels it her duty to take care of father, really wants to get married and go to South America with her man (John Gregson). The other daughter (Margaret Leighton), though weary unto drink of her empty London life, refuses to come home and take care of father. She has had a child out of wedlock, and cannot face the "perpetual pretense" of living...
...Winning Joker. Novelist Malaquais' triumphant joker seems to come from a stacked deck when Pierre, le gaffeur, wins against the overwhelming odds of the City. His prescription, a sardonically simple one, is set forth in an epigraph from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre...
...morning of April 30, the submarine Seraph, Lieut. N. A. Jewell commanding, surfaced about a mile off the estuary of the Huelva River. Out of his canister came Major Martin. The officers on deck bowed their heads as Lieut. Jewell spoke the words of the burial service, then Martin was gently pushed into the water and was picked up by the ingoing tide...