Word: decks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rice doesn't exist except as a baseball player, save for his close friends and family. In the ballpark, though, loping out to the outfield, matching steps with Freddie Lynn like the first two mustangs out of the canyon to sniff the expanse, or kneeling in the on deck circle coiled like a spring, or straightening up, breathing hard at first base after cracking one to left center--in the ballpark he's a bubbling, vital being who radiates sheer, awesome promise. Now the fourth metacarpal bone in his left hand is fractured and he is dead. Any sane...
With most of the world's shipping industry struggling to keep afloat, one of its captains is getting along swimmingly. Millionaire Shipowner Stavros Niarchos, 66, has welcomed a new deck-mate aboard his luxury yacht. She is Pia Giancaro, 30, a still-aspiring actress whose credits include such best forgotten films as The Red Woman Kills Seven Times and When Men Were Armed with Clubs. At least one observer, however, thinks Niarchos may not exactly be thinking of his new flame as his seventh bride. "I don't think you could call it anything serious," he says. "Niarchos...
Daniel, Bridget and I followed Peg up to his tiny, one-room cabin. A loaded shot-gun and squat, scoped hunting rifle hung over the door, a long-necked banjo and the Thompson over the bed. Peg turned on his tape deck, gave Peanut a piece of licorice, and pulled out the Thompson's clip: 90 rounds a minute of bloated, stumpy bullets. Peanut cried and Pegleg picked his banjo and Daniel got down on the floor where the child was and then wasn't when her mother picked her up, and said how she had the life and wasn...
...they finally climbed out of the Apollo 45 minutes later, after it had been hoisted aboard the New Orleans, the astronauts appeared no more wan and weary than might be expected after a nine-day mission. They went through the traditional welcoming ceremonies, addressed the world from the carrier deck and took the obligatory call from the President...
...here she was again of course, striding down to the deck on her long, gangly legs, carrying the slender red-and-white-tipped oar that towered above her, hoping this time wouldn't be the last. Her tangled, sandy light brown hair was pulled back carelessly into a pony tail, and her hands were protected as best they could be by bandages and gloves. Along with the three women who would be rowing with her in the four, she heaved the boat into the river, following the orders called out by the coxswain in a long, low shout. "Okay, hold...