Word: decking
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...months of debate, the Commission of Constitutional Studies, made up of members of Colombia's ruling Conservative Party, last week produced a draft of a new national constitution. The Liberals, who had refused to take part in the studies, charged that the Conservatives had set up a stacked deck to keep themselves in power forever...
...putting iron into the German navy's new blood. Each man was handed an electrically charged bar. Movies recorded who screamed and who bit his cheeks in the approved stoic fashion. It was deep winter, but at 6 a.m. reveille the cadets fell in on the weather deck of the training ship, stripped to the waist, washed and shaved out of ice-filled buckets of water. On shore the treatment was reversed: pushups with everyone swaddled in three pairs of pajamas, two blue uniforms, a grey overcoat, woolen cap, steel helmet and pack, in a room...
...Newest wrinkle in aircraft carriers, designed to prevent landing planes from crashing into others parked on the deck...
...your hair the same way I do." Later, on board the cruiser Helena returning from Korea, Ike and Humphrey cottoned to each other even more. Hum phrey's dry, quick sallies in the wardroom often broke the atmosphere of heavy deliberation, to Ike's relief. And on deck, to Ike's surprise, Old Hunter Humphrey turned out to be every bit as good a skeet-shooter as Old Soldier Eisenhower...
...Mozambique Channel, with Dr. Smith fretting in the cabin. It made a landing on the small French island of Dzaoudzi, more than 1,500 miles away. There Dr. Smith found his fish, rank but undecayed, on Trader Hunt's little ship. He knelt on the deck and wept...