Word: quarterdeck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scarcely an inkling of this filters through Rod Steiger's Ahab. He thumps, rants and bellows in good voice, but he is merely Captain Bligh, shifted from the quarterdeck of the Bounty to the dooms-deck of the Pequod...
High above the chaos sat NBC Stars Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, seemingly lashed to a specially designed table that looked like two large boomerangs joined together. A dumb-waiter lifted hot food and hot poop up to them from below. Said Huntley: "We're on the quarterdeck of the mother ship...
...York, Eddy's younger brother, a naval officer. After a suitable interval, bluff George and reticent May were married, and set up house at York Cottage, near Sandringham, practically a split-level by royal standards. George had his quirks and foibles, and his language owed more to the quarterdeck than to his quarterings. But he had more character than a bulldog and, like May, he was frankly a square. "There seems to me to be too much money spent on gilding. I hate gilding," was one of his rare judgments. Each night while George was in his library with...