Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...qualified as UDTs, the men are passed to the Airborne for three to five weeks of training as parachutists. All Seals must be proficient in at least one foreign language, in hand-to-hand combat and self-defense techniques. They are the Navy's "unconventionals," and they sometimes call themselves "the animals." For their skills and courage, Seal officers earn an extra $220 a month and Seal enlisted men an extra $110 monthly...
...first effort was a stouthearted call for Britons to join the spirit of the "I'm Backing Britain" campaign...
...master of the Socratic method, superb in dialogue." He characteristically makes a point by bashing down his glasses so hard that they sometimes break. There is some disagreement about his low, deep voice; Kurland says it has the "sort of cadence and vibrancy of a Welsh poet." Students call Gilmore "the Grunt" because of his habit of harrumphing, and talking into his mustache. One wisecracks that "it's been claimed that he only educates 25% of his students; the rest can't hear...
Nonetheless, his students call him a great teacher.* "He has the ability," says one, "to pick a minute point of law and expand it, contract it, show its variations, its logic, its evolution. It's not the material that makes his courses; it's Gilmore." Another chimes in: "He's not flashy. Essentially, you're getting hard thinking. You won't find what he teaches in any books...
Jimmy ("the Greek") Snyder never played pro football. He has only seen one game this year, and if he so much as said hello to a pro coach or player, somebody would probably call a cop. Jimmy the Greek is an oddsmaker-one of those faceless fellows who set a betting line on pro games for bookies and their clients...