Word: captain
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...Captain Carl Ehrlich is back for a fifth year, along with Sean Hayes—a promising linebacker who started six games his sophomore season before an injury took him off the field...
...Lacrosse started out as an Ivy League sport,” he said. “So part of it is very preppy. But another element is very laid back.” But Crimson lacrosse players were hesitant about that interpretation of the lax scene. Co-captain Sam H. Slaughter ’09, while he agreed that the team doesn’t favor specific brands, said he doesn’t see that as evidence of a sartorial void. “It’s like trying to say: What do all baseball players wear...
...darkness fell on April 12, Captain Richard Phillips was bound at gunpoint on a lifeboat bobbing in the Indian Ocean, held hostage by a band of Somali pirates who had attacked his container ship five days earlier. Saving Phillips' life meant taking out his three captors in as many shots--which the Navy SEAL snipers who rescued him managed to do from the swaying fantail of a destroyer 75 ft. (about 25 m) away. It was just "a day at the office" for the lite fighting force, as author and Vietnam-era SEAL Dick Couch said...
Have we awakened a sleeping giant or stood up, at long last, to a local bully? President Obama's decision last weekend to authorize force against the Somali pirates holding Captain Richard Phillips brought the end of a crisis, but it may be the beginning of a longer military effort. This year pirates have attacked dozens of vessels in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden, which leads into the Red Sea and the Suez Canal. Egged on by generous ransom payments, they're holding more than 300 sailors hostage. Phillips, captain of the Maersk Alabama, was the first...
...Sophomore co-ed captain Alan Palmer skippered the A-division boat, while fellow second-year Quincy Bock crewed. The pair registered a seventh-place team finish in the division, with six top-three finishes out of 18 races over the two-day affair...