Word: decking
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...Boche channel subs may not want to play cricket with us." That was in Halifax, just before she left dock. One hour and a half before she was to reach Liverpool the man on the bridge spotted a red flare thrown from a fishing sloop. All hands rushed on deck to see what was up. It happened inside of three minutes: a submarine, taking its cue from the flare, dropped its torpedo in a direct line for the British transport...
...stood on the deck and watched the whole show," mused Leigh Hoadley, one of the men in that ambulance corps. "There wasn't much we could do about it. The torpedo nicked our bow . . . but do you know, we were very fortunate. It didn...
...various and sundry textbooks, can no longer boast about. That meant that the undergraduate without the required 20-20 vision, qualified though he might be in ability, training, and in enthusiasm and eagerness to serve, was left out in the cold. For a pilot, a bombardier, or a deck officer the regulation seemed thoroughly justified; for a number of other jobs, it seemed disconcertingly foolish...
...both ends meet, Grandma's efforts to break up the children's ungodly card playing. Grandma found that burning a whole pack of cards in the stove in her room was too much bother, so she sabotaged sin by slyly removing just one card from each new deck. It was always the ace of spades, and Author Partridge believes the old lady thought the ace was the devil's hoofprint...
From North Carolina's port side burst a flaming earthquake-a roar that shattered its way to the marrow of man, a lurid flame that seemed to lick the water for hundreds of yards and lift itself above the ranging top of the foremast. The deck slid to starboard, oscillated to port, leveled off handily, rode steady again...