Word: decking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Composition, Clarity. Short and sun-bronzed, an unlit cigar clenched in the corner of his mouth, Rosy patrols a pitching deck with sure-footed agility that belies his 73 years. He cradles a battered Speed Graphic in his left arm, and from time to time he squints through the range finder, rises on his toes to kill the vibration of the 150-h.p. engine, waits for a wave to lift him and his target simultaneously, then snaps his shutter with a small cable release...
...business started up again, new ones were organized. The owner of Germany's Hanseatic is the new transatlantic Hamburg-Atlantic Line, which was formed in 1957, paid out $3,000,000 for the 28-year-old Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Scotland. The Hanseatic was completely refurbished (sixth deck, new aluminum superstructure, new stacks) in Hamburg's Howaldtswerke yard by 2,000 artisans who worked around the clock to finish it in six months...
...have been made (finesse South's king of clubs, discard West's losing dia mond on the jack of hearts). The payoff decision was Goren's final pass. At most other tables, West doubled the five-spade bid - naturally enough, since West held 15 of the deck's 40 high-card points (according to the Goren system of counting four for an ace, three for a king, two for a queen, one for a jack). But Goren, on the safe-side assumption that either North or South was void in clubs ("I had a strong suspicion...
...even as the Navy hailed Independence as the biggest warship in the world (the liners United States and America would fit beam to beam on her flight deck), opposition was strong in Congress against the Navy's overall carrier doctrine. Part of the opposition comes from supporters of the Air Force's Strategic Air Command, who believe that supercarriers put the Navy into the Air Force's business of strategic nuclear attack. But the most effective fight is coming from Navy types who contend that too much money is going into carriers that are vulnerable to both...
...much more than a reputation as a listless, slow-starting pug. Last week the St. Louis Honeybear suddenly turned into a tiger. To the delight of a home-town audience, he took just 20 seconds of the first round to put New Jersey's Vince Martinez on the deck in their fight for the welterweight championship of the world. Martinez managed to get up, but it was a painful mistake. Akins dropped him eight more times in three more rounds, flattened his nose, and finally knocked him so cold that Referee Harry Kessler did not even bother to count...