Word: decking
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...cold, gray afternoon a year ago, I stood on the deck of our newly purchased, half-constructed house about an hour outside Shanghai, wondering what, exactly, I had gotten myself into. My wife, a Shanghai native, and I had moved back to China from New York City in the spring of 2004, and 21⁄2 years later we had decided to take the plunge. We bought a three-story, five-bedroom townhouse way out in the suburbs, in a town called New Songjiang, a place that was then - and remains now - very much a work in progress...
...stood on the deck that day and watched one of the farmers who worked the watermelon patch, an older woman who would later introduce herself to us as Liu Yi, as she stared back at me across the river. I remember thinking to myself, My god, what must be going through her mind? Not only is the land she works on about to disappear, but there's this foreigner standing over there staring at her. Where did he come from and, more to the point, what in the world is he doing out here? The short answer is that...
...Shanghai with a lot of new construction, where her husband would continue to try to make a living shuttling workers around. Lin came over to our house one evening just before leaving; Joyce was giving her some of Abby's old baby clothes. We sat up on our deck, overlooking the river and the ever-shrinking patch of green on the other side. I asked her whether, and when, she and her husband might settle down - and what they might do, and where. She just laughed. "Oh, we'd like to live back home in Hefei [Anhui's capital] some...
Records will spin when DJs Slipwax and E-Ness of the Deck Demons hit up the Queen’s Head. Sip a 1636 and snack on Buffalo wings before hitting the dance floor for some serious bumpin’ and grindin?...
...saberist Emily Jacobson, who fenced for the US Olympic team in the senior circuit. Next weekend Harvard faces the toughest half of its Ancient Eight competition, with last year’s men’s and women’s champions in the form of the Lions on deck. “Essentially what we have to do next week to have any hope of at least sharing the title, we have to beat Columbia and Brown,” Brand said. “Next week we have to go undefeated to have any chance...