Word: captain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within this belt ranged Nationalist demolition teams, blowing all bridges that might be used by enemy vehicles. Long columns of weary, bedraggled infantrymen plodded back from the front to take up new positions nearer the city. A young captain in tennis shoes, a grimy sweat rag at his waist, said nervously: "Kung-fei hen li hai [the Communist bandits are very fierce]." In a day-long battle to the northwest, his regiment had lost a third of its men. The captain crouched, swung his silver-knobbed cane in imitation of a Tommy gun. "They came from all sides," he said...
...child wonder was about ten, a veteran of kid shows, benefits and early Eastern movies, Mom once broke up a ball game at a Catskill resort just after Milton's playmates had chosen sides. As one of the players recalls it, Mom announced: "Milton has to be the captain, because it's his bat and ball, and besides, he's going to be a big Broadway star some day." By the time he was 15, the lesson was well learned. "Kid," he confided to another trouper, "I'm going to the top in this business. Mama...
...Captain Jack Donelan will pitch again for the '52 baseball team against the Dartmouth freshmen at Hanover this afternoon in quest of his fifth victory of the year and his fourth straight victory. The team will be at full strength for the encounter...
Starters in today's game will probably be Captain Bill Spence, Willie Byrne, and Godfrey Birckhead at defense; Rip Lynch, Al Sawyer, and Peter Brook at midfield; Bob Baldwin Ned Yost, an Lon Schaffer at attack; and Dick Thomas in the goal...
...Golf captain Bill Rickenbacker scored a 71 in the New England Intercollegiates yesterday to tie for low man among 164 entries. He thereby became the only varsity player who will compete in the individual championships this afternoon...