Word: beret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier this year, a campaign aide was quoted as again stating that Switzler had been a Green Beret in Vietnam...
...models for a rural Southern black youth who picked tobacco to earn pocket money. In 1984 McNair became the second black man in space (after Guion Bluford in 1983), flawlessly launching a $75 million communications satellite from Challenger's cargo bay and lightening the mood by wearing a black beret and dark glasses and holding a movie clapper board. His name badge read CECIL B. MCNAIR...
According to students, La Ruche attracts a certain type of Harvard affiliate. "My social studies tutor has office hours there," says a Winthrop House sophomore. "It's where the beret crowd hangs...
Rambo is, of course, Sylvester Stallone's latest cinematic creation, a brooding Viet Nam veteran who unleashes destruction in the summer's first blockbuster hit, Rambo: First Blood Part II. In this sequel to Stallone's 1982 film First Blood, a crack veteran of the Green Beret Special Forces is sent back to Viet Nam to search for U.S. prisoners of war, only to be abandoned in the jungle and forced to guerrilla-fight his way out. In its first 23 days of release, Rambo, which cost $27 million to produce, has grossed a phenomenal $75.8 million...
...last five months." He chuckled. "Neither one was carrying hazardous chemicals," he said, chuckling again. "But I think our nine lives are up," he finished, chuckling still more heartily. The Rev. Mr. Page told a joke about the Johnstown flood more than once. James Stinson, a former Green Beret, now an antiterrorism consultant, pressed a button hooked to a slide projector. "I hope this doesn't detonate anything," he said...