Word: decks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chutzpa when he was dispatched to evacuate an injured sailor from an Israeli freighter in the Mediterranean. Yarom's gas ran low before he could find the freighter; noticing that U.S. helicopters were landing aboard the 40,000-ton Sixth Fleet carrier Wasp, Yarom followed them onto the deck. He was immediately summoned to the bridge, where a U.S. officer demanded...
Yarom knew full well that the largest ship in the Israeli navy could have fitted comfortably on the Wasp's flight deck. The Israeli navy includes one frigate, one destroyer, four submarines and twelve missile boats. Five of the missile boats were spirited away from a Cherbourg dock last Christmas in an escape that caused international excitement. Egypt, by comparison, has five destroyers, twelve submarines and 20 missile boats divided between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. A sixth destroyer was sunk by Israeli planes in retaliation for an Egyptian attack on an Israeli fishing boat...
...pots, pans and blankets. The 4,000-ton LST soon became a teeming refugee city of 2,000, a squalid campground with children everywhere and the smells of densely packed human life filling the air. Blankets and wicker mats were tied to a thick cable stretched across the main deck, making a city of half shelters. It all fell apart in the first breeze, but the Vietnamese carefully set about tying the shelters together again, just as they were reworking the fabric of their lives now that war had come to Cambodia...
...group of monks waved goodbye, and Phnom-Penh slipped into the distance as the ship passed Sihanouk's gold-roofed royal palace-now nearly deserted-and churned past homes and stores that once belonged to the city's hard-working Vietnamese. On deck, rain squalls washed over squealing, fussing groups of children who clutched boxes of C-rations or dipped dirty fingers into bowls of rice and fish...
...army's tough. And there's no time for playing games. So when a soldier was handling a deck of cards in the chapel instead of praying or something else appropriate, the brass called the soldier in to find out why he was being a wise guy. The song was called "Deck of Cards," but how did Wink Martindale know the story...