Word: decks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aboard ships that, Dugan writes, were "not built to fit men; the men were warped to fit the ship." In fact, some of them were. In many a country town, an old sailor was readily identifiable by his severe stoop, the result of spending years in the orlop (overlap) deck, which sometimes offered no more than four feet of headroom...
There will be a boatroom, and also a workshop for year-round maintenance of the boats on the bottom floor of the boathouse. The upper level will include a committee room, lockers, and an observation deck...
Then there are those 600 Spanish laborers, crossing the Atlantic on an open deck. A particularly nice one drowns after leaping overboard to save a dog. Some of the passengers (the same group again) are overjoyed that the dog has been recovered. The message: some people think dogs are more important than impoverished Spaniards...
...went to a soccer game played under lights. There, the hurly-burly of the action, its colliding figures, its synergetic, bright-colored jerseys convinced him that his search for visual shock must be anchored in figurative art. In a series of tiny oils, he slammed anatomies together like a deck of badly shuffled playing cards...
...than curse when rats ran across their bodies, even more helpless to care for themselves when dysentery and bladder infections racked their bodies. Sanity hung by such threads as U.S. Special Forces Orville Roger Ballenger's calm recital each night of the 23rd Psalm, the creation of a deck of playing cards with tissue paper smuggled past the guards. Above all, they were sustained by the American determination not to crack under the Communist pressure...