Word: decks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From West Point, the Rapps moved to Virginia where they joined Starlit--a tedious 40-minute commute. Betsy began to train seriously with the A1 group at 11 while Jenny--hampered by her thinness--often had to sit out on deck shivering between sets, wrapped in three large towels...
...Allen became a consultant for various businesses overseas, a career that was almost ended when he crashed his Beechcraft Bonanza while landing, suffering five compound fractures in his lower body. As a result he has a loping gait that gives the look of an energetic sea captain walking the deck in unsettled waters. That appearance was appropriate for the troubles that confronted him in his profitable enterprises. There were constant rumors that he had benefited unduly from his connections with the Nixon White House. A damaging exposé in the Wall Street Journal a few days before the 1980 election...
...feel he has not assembled his NSC staff swiftly or skillfully enough. Like his patron Meese, he seems to lack an eye for detail. Allen's ego may be smaller than Haig's, but not by much. Ambitious and restless, he may eventually claim more of the deck than he does at present, but he will probably move too adroitly to inspire mutiny...
While her coach was doing a slow burn on deck, distance ace Maureen Gildea was busy setting the pool on fire in the 500-yd. freestyle. Gildea, who suffered a severe knee injury last summer and has spent most of the season recuperating from subsequent surgery, swam the best 500 freestyle of her Harvard career to win the consolation-finals-and-place ninth overall. Her time of 5:03, 98 was very close to Liz Kelly's University record...
...woman who knows no mercy, Elizabeth I? Neither. Hildesheimer believes that history is an obscene irony, an absurdist fable signifying nothing. His prelates, earls, doctors, ladies in waiting and greedy hangers-on vary so little from the monarch that they are all like cards in a stacked deck...