Word: quarterdecks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a gold earring in his pierced right ear and gold bangles jangling at his wrists, the man who called himself Ronald Chesney looked every inch the pirate he claimed to be. He habitually arrayed his strapping, 6-ft. 1-in. frame in the generously sweeping gestures of the quarterdeck, and boasted homerically of his vast appetites for food, drink and women. When asked his profession, "Old Ches" would reply with a huge guffaw: "Smuggling." Men and women in all walks of life fell easy prey to Ches's flamboyant charms, and after failing to see him for long...
...pace-a-minute stride, and chided newsmen who fell behind. At night, he and his staff, including Administrative Assistant Donald Dawson (the man with the way in the old RFC), played "poverty" poker. Each man put up $100, could draw from the pool if he ran through that. Quarterdeck conversation frequently turned toward the President's favorite subject-U.S. history. Harry Truman got the biggest "yuck" out of telling the boys about one of Benjamin Franklin's scatological inventions...
...midnight, in absolute silence, under chilly, low-hanging skies that blotted out the stars, the Mansfield cautiously worked in toward shore. On the destroyer's quarterdeck ten men-four marines, four bluejackets and two officers-checked their weapons and adjusted packs crammed with TNT. Some carried Tommy guns, others carbines. Each man had a knife dangling on his pistol belt. A few wore sneakers. The men shifted their feet uneasily as they watched a small whaleboat being lowered into the water...