Word: decked
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This burly airplane the Douglas XA2D Skyshark, is a Navy attack on a pressing problem: how to fly modern bombers off carriers. Straight jets are difficult because they have little thrust on takeoff, and so find the flight deck cramped. Old style bombers (Piston engines and propellers) are not fast enough...
...bull pen, got them to the mound in a matter of seconds compared to the ambling three to five minutes usually required. Less colorful, but equally timesaving, were two other Greenberg suggestions which the Indians now follow: 1) make a pitcher wait his batting turn in the "on deck" circle instead of in the dugout, and 2) make him go to the mound more promptly at the start of each inning. These stunts, the Cleveland management figured, had already cut the time of games by something like 20 minutes...
From the U.S.S. Norton Sound, a converted Navy seaplane tender cruising the Pacific south of Hawaii, came a bit of rather ominous news. A Viking rocket (body by Glenn L. Martin Co. propulsion by Reaction Motors, Inc.) had been launched from its deck to an altitude of 106.4 miles. This is only a few miles short of the record for single-stage rockets (114 mi.) made by the larger German...
Princeton, Pennsylvania, Syracuse, Yale, Columbia, Navy, Cornell, Wisconsin, B.U., and Rutgers finished behind the winner and runner-up in that order. The Tigers were about a deck and a length behind the two leading shells...
Clenched Fists. As the crowd came up, half a dozen sailors watched glumly from the Pozharsky's deck. Two of them planted themselves in warning at the head of the gangplank. Most of the women stopped singing, but Palmira, undiscouraged, waved her carnations and shouted, "Tovarish, Tovarish, Tovarish Stalin." The Russians continued to stare blankly and, for a moment, her voice began to break. Then she beamed and raised her arm in the clenched fist salute. At last the Russians answered. They raised their right arms-with hands held open. "No, no," howled Palmira's followers...