Word: captain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captain gave in. Gerhart was arrested, and led quietly out on deck. But then he saw an amazing spectacle: 100 newsmen were circling the ship in rented craft, cameras and notebooks poised. Gerhart Eisler threw himself on the deck and yelled as though he were having lighted cigarettes pushed into his eyes. The plainclothesmen picked him up by arms & legs and lugged him down the gangway, while cameras clicked...
...Militar, only to be expelled seven months later for his part in a student rebellion against compulsory smallpox vaccination. A government amnesty let him return. Two years after graduation he was a cavalry lieutenant, apparently destined for the usual army career-25 years a captain, then retirement. Then he met & married Dona Carmela Leite de Cintra...
Dona Carmela, the widow of an army captain who had died in Germany while on a government mission, was a woman whose piety and good works later endeared her to Brazilians as "Dona Santinha"-the little saint. She also burned with ambition for her husband. At her urging, Dutra returned to his books and won an appointment to Brazil's General Staff School, where he hung up a scholastic record unequaled before or since...
...afternoon of tap day last week, there was a stir of special excitement at Yale. Would Halfback Levi Jackson, the first Negro ever to be elected captain of a Yale football team (TIME, Dec. 6), also be the first of his race to be tapped for a senior society...
...trouble living up to his obvious nickname. In all the university's vast (3,250 members) faculty, no teacher is so fierce in pursuit of his prize (knowledge) or so furious in the treatment of his enemy (the lazy student) as the law school's "Captain Kidd...