Word: bill
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While Harvard football Coach Joe Restic was leading a mass invasion into unfriendly New Haven, Harvard men's hockey Coach Bill Cleary had to guard the fort at Cambridge against a night raid of Cadets...
...cavalry brats, the years between the wars are seen through a golden haze. Jane Wilson Cooper, daughter of the late Colonel Garnet ("Bill") Wilson, a 40-year cavalryman, recalls a "marvelous sense of security when you heard the bugle call tattoo or the gun was fired for retreat. It was the Depression, but we were never aware of not having money. What I remember is fox hunting at Fort Oglethorpe, not being broke." Her voice, these years later, carries enormous pride at being family to an elite corps of warriors...
...Never apologize, never explain." That ancient macho motto may be the only bit of traditional wisdom Scottish Filmmaker Bill Forsyth believes in. The glory of his wee pictures (Gregory's Girl, Local Hero) is the way people appear out of nowhere, disappear without warning, and never discuss their motives for doing either. In his world no one has heard of Freud, let alone a well-made screenplay. They are, however, well prepared for life's little surprises...
...those goals were simply sweet. C.J. Young's power-play goal with 10 minutes left, which started it all, was sweet. Don's Sweeney unassisted score that tied the game up was even sweeter. In fact, Coach Bill Cleary certainly liked the way this win tasted. But he'll still admit luck played a big part...
Reagan had threatened to veto an earlier version, passed by the House last May, which would have cut defense spending more drastically and imposed harsher arms control restrictions. The administration feared that the bill would hamper the United States in arms negotiations with the Soviet Union...