Word: camped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ready retort: "The longest place I've ever lived in my life is Hanoi." That was no exaggeration: after a peripatetic life as a Navy pilot, McCain was shot down over Viet Nam in 1967 and spent the next 5 1/2 years in a prisoner- of-war camp. He came out with two broken arms and a broken leg; he still walks with a slight limp and cannot raise his right forearm above elbow level. His war-hero status helped elect him to two terms in the House and, last week, to Barry Goldwater's seat in the Senate. McCain...
...irreverent humor: he got off one of the best quips of the campaign at Goldwater's expense. McCain recalled Goldwater's saying that if he had been elected President in 1964 and had put his hawkish policies into effect, McCain would never have wound up in a Vietnamese prison camp. Right, said McCain, "it would have been a Chinese prison camp...
...republic's military organization, except for a few units. President Marcos was already dealing with us. He was not dealing with the opposition. We could have effectively run the country at that point. In fact, we were exercising governmental powers. Only then did they (the opposition) appear at our camp. We readily and willingly transferred power to them. Do you think they could have stood as a government if the military had not recognized them as a government...
...ended up where I had to make the descion to attend football camp or not," Cox said. "No one belived that I would actually go. Most laughed, but I was determined...
When Cox arrived at training camp, none of the players wanted to tackle her. And when she finally was tackled, it was by accident...