Word: besting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long spiked tail and 212 teeth" who, alas, couldn't breathe fire so the old sea turtle fixed that with some hot peppers, coal and oil, but then Algon burnt up everything around the house, so once again the old sea turtle, etc., etc., and that, oh best beloved, is how the first alligator was born...
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Rusty left Miami for two years at Georgia Military Academy, but returned to graduate from Miami's Edison High School. His best subjects were government and English history. Rusty was on the debating team, and he was popular enough with his classmates to be elected .to the prestigious Mike and Mask Club. He dated regularly, dressed well, drank beer with his buddies and kept things moving in any group. "He'd come up with things quickly at the right time to make people laugh," says Rick Smith, an Edison classmate. There was a deeper side. Another high school friend, Chuck...
...emotional anchor. "He liked the Army," Queen says. "I think it kind of gave him a home." One of the members of his platoon in C Company, ex-Corporal William Kern, found Calley entirely ordinary. "There was nothing strange about him," Kern recalls. "He wasn't the best officer in the world. He wasn't the worst, either...