Word: caps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soldier Chonkin belongs to an older tradition. He is the wise fool, the slow-witted peasant who mulishly plows a straight furrow through a devious world. Chonkin even looks as if he had plodded from the pages of folklore, "his field shirt hanging out over his belt, his forage cap down over his big red ears, his puttees slipping...
Blumenthal taught at Princeton for three years, but scholarship was too tame for his combative temperament. He took a job as vice president of Crown Cork International, a bottle-cap manufacturer. In 1961, he secured an appointment as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. When the Kennedy Round of negotiations for tariff reductions got under way, Blumenthal was made chairman of the U.S. delegation. Instructions to be tough were superfluous; that was his natural style...
With no coherent or lengthy offensive drives to speak of for the entire afternoon, Harvard nevertheless managed another score at 14:11 of the second, when Kubacki bucked through the line to cap a 39-yd. series, giving the Crimson a 14-0 lead. The drive, short as it was, originated when Green punter Steve Terrell collected only 11 yards for his mid-field kicking effort...
...perhaps much longer. Texas Attorney General John Hill predicted that it would be at least two years before all the appeals are completed and the first execution could happen in his state. Like many in the U.S., Texas death row prisoners had seemed almost not to believe that cap ital punishment would really return. With last week's final Supreme Court decision, reality has begun to sink in. The long-expected individual appeals will now start inundating Hill's office...
Cannonballs and antique china. The sword and uniform Robert E. Lee wore at Appomattox. Jeb Stuart's boots and the saddle on which he received his fatal wound at Yellow Tavern. Stonewall Jackson's cap. Three hundred battle flags. It was all there in the venerable "White House of the Confederacy"?the 158-year-old mansion where President Jefferson Davis lived at Richmond. Since the turn of the century, awed Southerners have walked through the hallowed building?along with curious Yankees. Together, they and the memorabilia helped to prolong the cliché of the South as a place where...