Word: beret
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter, flaunting a luxuriant red beard and one of his normally outlandish outfits--purple beret, electric blue and yellow sweater, khaki pants with large patches of turquoise, maroon and purple, as well as green poles with orange Day-Glo baskets--slithered through the 550-foot course with the best times for each of the two runs, and defeated runnerup David Dodge of the University of Vermont by over a second. Ben Steele, star of Carter's intercollegiate team, remained off the peak he reached winning EIS championships three weeks ago at Middlebury and finished third. Dodge finished fourth...
There are, of course, many other deserters and draft dodgers who want to come home now that the war has ended, but they do not dare face the risks. One Green Beret medic who deserted Army training at Fort Bragg, N.C., four years ago was arrested and was being court-martialed when he escaped and made his way to Sweden. Last summer he arrived in Canada with another American expatriate whom he had married in Stockholm. Now he wants to return to the U.S. "I have a feeling for the U.S. and the future," he says...
...name of I.B. Emmy 60; she has shiny new keys and a self-cleaning memory system, which gives her the appeal of a perpetual tabula rasa. He is known to whisper FORTRAN into her phones at lunch hour. She does not go for wonks, so he wears a beret to look artsy. But despite her electric personality, he can't turn her on. His case is fatal; he kept falling on the ice in despair and abandon...
Fighting soldiers from the sky, Fearless men who jump and die, Men who mean just what they say. The brave men of the green beret...
...careful selection of famous people "who have influenced history" includes Confederate General Robert E. Lee and that master of civil disobedience Martin Luther King Jr. While the BSA officially plans to de-emphasize the military aspects of Scouting, uniformed Scouts now have the option of wearing a beret, which gives them a dashing Special Forces look, or a billed forage cap for that nostalgic Afrika Korps touch. There is as yet no official Boy Scout headband, although the Handbook has nothing against "the cut of your hair," as long as it is clean...