Word: decking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...gradually. When he was packed off to Phillips Exeter Academy from his home near Catfish Creek in Iowa, he became coxswain of the crew when he graduated from Harvard in 1936 he shipped out on a Standard Oil tanker bound for South America. Finally he went to work as deck hand, mate and pilot on a succession of Mississippi river boats-diesel towboats and stern-wheelers. A Stretch on the River is his first, largely autobiographical novel based on those days...
Mark Twain would have liked A Stretch on the River, but not Mark's genteel wife Livy. The fact is that Deck Hand Bill Joyce thought and talked mostly about women and so did Joe, the second mate...
...crewmen, steamed down New York Harbor, bound for a leisurely cruise to Marseille, Naples, Alexandria, Beirut, Piraeus, Leghorn and Genoa. Thirty-five minutes after leaving her Jersey City dock, the Excalibur collided with the Danish cargo ship Colombia in the Narrows below Manhattan. The liner, gashed from its deck to below the water line, was ignominiously tugged to the mud flats off Brooklyn, and its unhappy passengers wound up (via harbor tug) back in Jersey City. The Colombia got its bow bashed in, and fire broke out in its paint locker. Nobody was seriously hurt, but an investigation was started...
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas said he had no thought of running for President in 1952: "I'm going to stay on the bench. I like it there." Defense Secretary Louis Johnson felt much the same. "I am not a candidate for President," he announced from the deck of the carrier Midway, adding that his only desire when the long trick was over was to "go back to the hills of West Virginia for a little sleep and rest...
Looking very intense indeed, as if he were about to land a very hot jet job on a jeep carrier's flight deck, Lifar climbed up on a little box and stared hard at three helicopters parked near him. Then he stretched his arms straight out from his shoulders, and his study in ballon-with motorized ballerinas...