Word: teak
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...awkward sea legs, a stubby (5 ft. 2 in.) Japanese shambled last week into a white-walled ordnance classroom at the Washington Navy Yard. He wore a poor-quality, ill-fitting blue suit; there was nothing in his bearing or his sagjawed face, as expressionless as a teak deck, to show that he had been a commander in the Imperial Japanese Navy, commanding officer of the submarine I-58. He had left a wife and three small children at his house in bomb-battered Kure...
...representatives were due aboard the Missouri to surrender, somebody discovered at the last minute that there was no table on hand big enough for the ceremonious signing. A table from the enlisted men's mess was carted topside and set up on the Missouri's teak-planked veranda deck. The ceremony over, the table was taken back to the mess where it belonged. A dozen men had eaten spaghetti at it before the ship's officers shouted, "Where's the table?" They retrieved the now historic object and stowed it reverently away in an officer...
...them was the teak-decked, 56-ft. cutter Blitzen (once owned by Tobacconist Dick Reynolds). Shortly after her nine-man Detroit crew finished beefing over losing an hour by changing to a storm mainsail, most of them got seasick. The crews of the other three racers got sick first, and never did get their storm mains...
Last week the 21 Indian delegates, gathered around the long teak table in the Simla conference room, learned that the hope of self-government for India had also been a false dawn. The bright hopes for success which had inspired the Simla Conference almost to the end were over...
...administer their own laws, order executions (by drowning at sea), give each native who marries a house as wedding present. Each king has provided a bronze bust of himself for the royal gallery, each has maintained an unfailing cellar of matured Scotch whiskey in the royal "palace" (a sprawling teak-and-tile mansion...