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  • Suffocating and slightly embarrassed, and this is where it gets tricky, the Fed was forced to purchase the pink paper with what are called “air barrels,” and then shovel the pink paper, below-decks, into giant titanium vaults.

    Matthew Yglesias » Two Targets, No Accountability 2010

  • "Damn it," I said to Murtagh, as we hung over the rail for fresh air during a brief hiatus in the unpleasantness below-decks, "if he knows he's seasick, why in the name of God did he insist on a boat?"

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • There are no more deck chairs to rearrange, so Penn has just been sent below-decks to rearrange the chairs in the dining room.

    Clinton Camp Sacks Mark Penn 2009

  • Yes, the captain was "three sheets to the wind" -- but sleeping it off below-decks.

    Stick your damn hand in it 2009

  • Yeager seizes the opportunity and takes a place on board but is very much out of the frying pan into the fire - she has to adjust to a brutal and unforgiving below-decks society very different from her past experience, and to choose her friends, allies and bedfellows carefully from crewmates who would see her as enemy if they knew of her past she is a veteran of the events of Downbelow Station.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Sci-Fi Gene 2009

  • Yes, the captain was "three sheets to the wind" -- but sleeping it off below-decks.

    Stick Your Damn Hand In It 2009

  • Yeager seizes the opportunity and takes a place on board but is very much out of the frying pan into the fire - she has to adjust to a brutal and unforgiving below-decks society very different from her past experience, and to choose her friends, allies and bedfellows carefully from crewmates who would see her as enemy if they knew of her past she is a veteran of the events of Downbelow Station.

    Love at first flight? Sci-Fi Gene 2009

  • With Bill below-decks, Hillary turned in big media appearances, including a good showing in a debate with Obama, charming appearances on Saturday Night Live and the Daily Show, a strong media blitz complete with frightening (and evidently effective) commercials, and an old-fashioned personal-appearance blitz she handled with grace and charisma despite hectic schedules and little sleep.

    Obama swamped by perfect storm as Hillary blows in 2008

  • Speaking of one of my favorite playwrights, the _xXx squared_ working title for the film, honestly director obviously learned from Aleksandr Pushkin's famous adage of play-writing "If a gun is placed on the mantelpiece in the first act, it must be fired by the end of the second act", except in this case it's a sign in a ship below-decks corridor while Ice Cube is walking, and you only have to wait one scene.

    eh, and stick insects, arachnids, and rats badger 2005

  • The Vengeance boasts a 690-foot flight deck-almost enough room for Lizzie to park-three radar systems, a 330-by-52-foot below-decks hangar area for your partying pleasure and sleeping quarters for 1,300.

    Scary Internship II 2003

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