Word: decking
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...leant forward to take the piece but my hand never reached it, for there was a sudden crash and the chessmen went flying across the deck. We had been torpedoed; the impossible had happened...
...waves seemed to me to be nearer the deck, and in truth they were, for suddenly the sea seemed to gather itself together and come aboard us in a rush; a great green, smooth-backed wave surged over the side...
Those standing around the boats were either swept overboard or trapped between the two decks; those of us who were still on our feet struggled up the companionway and down on to the port deck...
...visitor, guided by the island's blinker and its own searchlight, eased in to an anchorage. The natives swarmed aboard. On deck they had a big surprise-the smiling face of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, genuinely happy to be of assistance, only incidentally pleased to find himself hip-deep in news again...
...work fulltime. Last week he had his new business. It was a spa, Arrowhead Springs Hotel, in the San Bernardino Mountains near Riverside, 70 miles east of Hollywood, built over hot mineral springs and fitted for healthful Hollywood holidays with everything from mud baths to bars, from deck chairs to ski slides, minimum rates $13 a day (American plan). At Arrowhead for the opening were such gentry as Arturo Toscanini, Ernst Lubitsch, Edward G. Robinson, Sam Goldwyn. A few days later Arrowhead opened its "curatory," complete with steam caves in which magnates and stars began tentatively to stew...