Word: captaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Never a Captain. Rowe's chance for escape finally came on the last day of 1968, when allied troops launched a sweep near the camp and the prisoners were moved out. "I got one guard to separate with me," Rowe recalled. "At that point, the guard became unconscious and I got to the chopper." How did the guard become unconscious? "I'd rather not go into that at this point," said the major with a smile...
...Captain Howie Chatterton will replace Raynor at 177, Mark Faller will move up one class to 167, and Bart Harvey will wrestle at 160. Bruce Goodman has recovered from a shoulder injury and will compete in the 130-pound class...
...Then Captain Lloyd Bucher came to the microphone. A gentle man with a faint voice, Bucher was still crying as he began to speak. Reagan's daughter and two Navy officers standing behind Bucher began to cry as he spoke. He was sorry, Bucher said, for the trouble he caused the country by "losing one of its very fine ships." "We had been unfortunate by being in the wrong place with too many of them and too few of us to do anything about turning over a United States ship...
...Brother. Regardless, Dell was not taking any chances. In his first year as captain, the 30-year-old lawyer and former Davis Cup player (1961) was determined to restore some semblance of spirit to the team, which in prior years was plagued by dissension and a marked lack of enthusiasm. Acting as a strict but understanding big brother, he succeeded in his aim by imparting, as Ashe describes it, "this special feeling. Having him as captain is like having John Kennedy for President...
...sons William and Robert-founder and scions of a family whose name is synonymous with sleuthing-are no exceptions. Toward the criminals they pursued for twelve decades, from Jesse James to Willie ("The Actor") Sutton, the Pinkertons seemed to direct the same obsessive passions Melville imputed to Captain Ahab, who was a first-class tracker by any detective's standards: "He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down." Adopting a godlike motto ("We Never Sleep") the Pinkertons did not so much...