Word: decks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first elated by the relatively undamaged condition of many of the ships (some of them could get up steam and float properly). There was less to be elated about three weeks later after Test Baker (the underwater explosion). To old salts, the spectacle of the Radiological Monitors, "decked out in galoshes, gloves, coveralls, and mask . . . creeping along the passages . . . waving a magic black box," was unnautical and absurd. When told by one of the monitors that the deck he was standing on was hotter than hell, the Navyman whistled up his scrubmen. They scrubbed and scrubbed, Navy-way -but still...
...Cambridge there weren't many people around for Cotton Mather's only blowout. Less than one-quarter of the local undergraduate population was on deck for turkey day, and the Annex had a meager...
...amazing facsimile of G.B.S. Seeing and hearing the wise and pungent comments come out of the familiar countenance gives them an additional kick. Mr. Bourneuf is not new to Shaw, having appeared in "Androcles and the Lion" on Broadway two years ago. He skits up and down his poop deck, pausing only long enough to snap his verbal whip...
...ailing Robert F. Wagner, 71, has the seniority for the Banking & Currency chairmanship, and hopes to be well enough to take it. If not, the next in line is South Carolina's nails-hard, conservative Burnet Maybank, 49. Tennessee's querulous, old (79) Kenneth McKellar was on deck for the Appropriations Committee, Maryland's acidulous Millard E. Tydings for Armed Services, Georgia's Walter F. George for Finance...
...moment the might of the Red army in the account of the latest U.S. super-super-super Flying Fortress. It was so huge that the pilot, hearing a noise behind him, had to dispatch a courier by motorcycle to locate the trouble. "Just a football game on the lower deck," came the report. Another ruckus. "A water polo match in the swimming pool." A terrific bang. "Now the boys are furious, sir," reported the messenger. "A Russian plane was trying to buzz us. It flew in through the window and crashed on the basketball court...