Word: buckleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rookie did not know whether Hannah was serious, but he didn't exactly wish to rile 280 pounds worth of Alabama human flesh. Later, when Brian Buckley learned that John Hannah has a strange sense of humor, he would be able to laugh. They would kid each other about which was superior--the Crimson of the north of the Crimson Tide of the south...
...AWACS as well as its relative invulnerability to air attack when escorted by modern fighters. Now, however, both the Defense and State departments were trying to assure Israel that the electronics-laden craft is no threat to that nation's security. Under Secretary of State James Buckley suggested that the relatively slow (530 m.p.h.) AWACS planes, which are modified Boeing 707 jetliners, could easily be shot down by Israeli fighters if they strayed close enough to Israel's borders to permit their radar to monitor Israeli aircraft. The Defense Department declassified studies showing how well the high ground...
...also subtly shifted its basic rationale for the sale from the argument that it would give the Saudis the help they need to defend the oil fields to the claim that it would give the U.S. a new chance to inject its own military power into the Middle East. Buckley contended that U.S. military ground crews will be required in Saudi Arabia for years to maintain the complex aircraft. He even suggested that the ground facilities could be used by U.S. forces "if we do have to go in in a hurry" in any future emergency involving oil facilities...
...trouble is that these insulters leave no heirs. The best we have-William F. Buckley Jr., Gore Vidal, Truman Capote -show a flair from time to time, but perhaps because cleverness is so desperately expected of them, often sound as if their hearts are not in it, as if they are merely paying tribute to the old masters. Capote once called Jacqueline Susann "a truck driver in drag." Have we come to this? During Watergate, H.R. Haldeman's lawyer, John J. Wilson, referred to Senator Daniel K. Inouye as "that little Jap." He then defended himself by saying that...
Last year was one of the better outings in recent history. and. but for several key injuries, might have been another possible championship. Led by quarterback Brian Buckley an 11th-round draft pick of the New England Patriots), the Crimson won its first four games, ncluding a 15-10 thriller at Army. But Buckley panged his knee and the team stumbled at mid-season, eventually finishing with a 7-3 mark, a third-place tie in the Ivies. Despite the fine record, the season ended on a dismal note, a 14-0 humiliation at the hands of Yale...