Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though as a "technical consultant" he was not eligible to fly in combat, squadron commanders generally had an extra plane warmed up on the line for him. Though old at 42, he flew some 50 combat missions. Perhaps more important, he brought his old genius for engineering to bear on the planes he flew, remarkably improving their effectiveness; by fiddling with the throttle settings and prop angle of the P-38s, he was able to extend their range 500 miles...
Zuckerman, a friendly, flop-haired bear of a boy ("Everybody calls me Pinky"), started studying at seven with his violinist father. In 1961, Isaac Stern and Pablo Casals heard him play at the Tel Aviv Conservatory and immediately cleared the way for him to go to New York. In the finals, he says, "I lost my cool. My fingers got all tangled up. It taught me how much I could produce under tension, but I sure hope it never happens again." At a victory celebration, he broke down and cried...
...curious fact that each was born in a national park. Their leader, Bill, is in a slow decline, largely because he went to Bridgeport, Conn., to deliver a powerful statement, but Bridgeport wouldn't listen. Anyway, he is tired of Snow White now, and can't bear to be touched...
After the reception station, where you report for induction, you go to your basic training company and they split you up there into platoons and they give you a DI, a drill instructor. He wears one of those little Smoky the Bear hats, like a forest ranger, you know, but you don't call them Smoky the Bear hats because they would get irked about this...
...tuition). We should emphasize, however, that this scholarship aid, though a great booster to many teaching fellows who would otherwise sink deeply into debt in order to pay their term bills is not automatic was given in the past year to only 575 of 926 teaching fellows, does not bear any meaningful relation to the amount of the appointments and thus cannot actually be considered as compensation...