Word: decks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perfect retreat from come-what-may." At 50 cubits wide, 30 cubits deep and 250 cubits long, it is slightly smaller than the biblical proportions, but still large enough to accommodate pairings of 92 mammals, ten reptiles, 26 birds, 14 fresh-water fish and 38 insects on its kennel deck. The species are presumably those that Neiman-Marcus deems necessary for setting up life in some as yet unpolluted corner of the globe. No rain required...
...team will not turn around and belt the daylights out of a reputed powerhouse. For evidence, consider the fact that after one month of the 1970 season, not a single team among the 26 in the National Football League remained undefeated. In other words, this game is no stacked deck, like the stabbing to death of a wounded bull, a pastime that has achieved the rank of high art in several Spanish-speaking nations...
...changes even a pack of cards into a design problem; his House of Cards Picture Deck is made up of beautifully patterned photos that have slits so that one can build a house of herbs and spices, spools of thread, Victorian English pill boxes or Chinese baby firecrackers. With his newest deck, the Computer House of Cards, one can build keyboards on resistors and capacitors or make flow charts of transistor heat sinks and wire-wrapped pin connections...
...mock colonial headquarters fended off a flood of transocean phone calls from anxious shareholders in many far-off countries. Emerging from one meeting, Vice President Joseph Jordan delivered a pep talk to worried USIF salesmen. "We are solvent," he said. "If we have to, we'll clear the deck-tighten our belts, cut officers' salaries, drop employees. I get nothing. The shareholders will get paid." That, of course, remains to be seen. Gramco places such generous valuations on its properties that some U.S. real estate men doubt that they could be sold now-except at a loss...
...knotted into the dread hourglass shape that is the stuff of a racing skipper's nightmares, and stayed that way for five agonizing minutes. Barely had the crewmen cleared the headsail when Gretel II nosed into a heavy wave that bucked Crewman Paul Salmon off the slippery deck. While the Aussies circled to rescue their comrade, Intrepid glided...