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Word: decking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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...knotted into the dread hourglass shape that is the stuff of a racing skipper's nightmares, and stayed that way for five agonizing minutes. Barely had the crewmen cleared the headsail when Gretel II nosed into a heavy wave that bucked Crewman Paul Salmon off the slippery deck. While the Aussies circled to rescue their comrade, Intrepid glided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Incredible Shebang | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

...planned this to torment me,' " a homosexual masseur protests. "He stood on the deck, holding a plastic lemon at elaborate arm's-length. 'You couldn't possibly buy artificial lemon juice, someone left it here, it's a bad joke...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Anesthesia Play It As It Lays | 9/23/1970 | See Source »

...planned this to torment me,'" a homosexual masseur protests. "He stood on the deck, holding a plastic lemon at elaborate arm's length. 'You couldn't possibly buy artificial lemon juice, someone left it here, it's a bad joke...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Anesthesia Play It As It Lays | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...nonexistent labor newspaper until the racket got too hot to handle; then Elliott took odd jobs?as a rug-cleaner salesman, a theatrical-school teacher, night elevator man in a residential hotel. Around this time, things seemed to pick up. He got a summer job in Hit the Deck, which led to a chorus job in Irma La Douce, which led to an audition for lead understudy in I Can Get It For You Wholesale, which led to that girl who stole the show, Barbra Streisand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Elliott Gould: The Urban Don Quixote | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

...copies sold by 1952) The Mature Mind, Overstreet sought to present in simple layman's terms the latest advances in human sciences. His technique seemed vastly oversimplified to some, but others found it both charming and instructive-as when he labeled the boy on the burning deck a moron, because "he did not have the intelligence to adapt himself to a changing situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 31, 1970 | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

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