Word: boyd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gallery floor, Foreign Affairs Committee Clerk Boyd Crawford heard the shots crack out, raced into the corridor just in time to see the first gunman emerge from the gallery, gun in hand. Crawford, an amateur marksman, lunged for the pistol, jammed his finger into the trigger guard, and with the aid of a bystander, knocked the man to the tiled floor. A page boy and three Congressmen, assisted by a crowd of outraged spectators, subdued and disarmed the other...
Tigers; a name carried down from the days when all male students were military students and all students were male. The name derived from the Louisiana Tigers of the Civil War, with which Colonel David French Boyd, the second president of the university, had been affiliated during the war. The name started with Wheat's Tigers,* who had fought themselves to extinction by 1862, but it became the legacy of all the Louisiana fighting...
...landed behind U.S. lines by North Korean Pilot Noh Keum Suk on Sept. 21 was flown in simulated combat against Sabre jets by Major General Albert Boyd, commander of Wright Air Development Center, by Major "Chuck" Yeager, the first pilot to fly faster than sound, and by Captain Harold E. Collins, who set an official speed record in a Sabre jet. After putting the MIG through its paces, they decided that it 1) has "insufficient stall warning"; 2) has a cramped, uncomfortable cabin with poor heating and ventilation; 3) is hard to control in combat; 4) is "deficient in speed...
...Epicmaker Cecil B. DeMille was reportedly considering William (Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd for the role of Moses in his forthcoming remake of The Ten Commandments. Cracked one columnist: "They went thataway, across...
...fine goal line stand by ace linemen Bob Picard and Bob Boyd gained Adams House a 7 to 7 tie with traditional rival Saybrook. Saybrook scored first, midway through the second quarter, on a 12 yard pass from Jim Orr to Carl Van Winter. Saybrook had recovered an Adams fumble on the Gold Coast 30. Adams scored after a long march, when Bill Radomsky crossed off his own right tackle from five yards out. Jack King ran around end for the extra point...