Word: captains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...several Air France blankets and slept for 2½ hours," reported van Voorst. "His personal security guard, suffering from a toothache and numb from aspirins, sat at the bottom of the steps. At sunrise, somewhere over Turkey, the Ayatullah said prayers, then was served an omelet for breakfast. When the captain announced that the plane had flown into Iranian airspace and would land in Tehran in half an hour, the Ayatullah craned his neck to look down on the magnificent spectacle of the snow-covered Zagros Mountains. 'The Ayatullah,' murmured one of his senior aides, 'is back in his country...
...guard captain sets out to break Chilly's power in order to establish his own rule. In the conflict, both Gasolino and a con named Juleson (John Heard) die as Chilly struggles to hang on. Juleson's characterization is interesting: he is a quiet, fairly bright middle-class wife killer who doesn't fit in the underclass prison society. One of the better scenes takes place in a group therapy session, in which the other cons (most of them actually inmates at the Rockview State Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania, where the film was shot) goad Juleson into...
...absence of pole vaulter captain Geoff Stiles and running machine John Murphy, due to maladies, further weakened the Crimson squad...
...With captain Glenn Fine controlling the ball for the Crimson and setting the tempo, Harvard built an eight-point lead midway through the first stanza. The Bruins' Chuck Mack sunk several long-distance jumpers to keep the offensively impotent Brown five in the ball game. Mack's effort, along with 88 per cent team accuracy from the charity stripe brought the Bruins to within three, 33-30, as the opening period came to a close...
Despite the final tally, Cornell did not outclass Harvard, as the Crimson gathered three or four points in eight of the first nine bouts. Yet Harvard could not gather the vital one or two touches for five-point bout victories, as even usually formidable captain Kathy Lowry, previously 11-1 on the year, fell twice...