Word: choppered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refer disparagingly to Henry Moyers as "a onetime cotton chopper, candy salesman and truck driver," and to say he was "never much of a moneymaker," is to bemean the virtues that built this great country. Unprivileged by today's standards, Henry worked hard at the jobs available to him, saved when he could, guided his sons masterfully, and today looks at every man with a level gaze. As an employee of Thiokol Chemical Corporation, he makes us proud of him and proud of his sons...
...still on the ground." Suddenly, the frantic voice of a U.S. soldier broke into the narrative. "Get him up! Get him out! Get him up!" he screamed. Back came the CBS man: "The helicopter takes off quickly, heading straight north. The air strike is held for a moment. The chopper makes it safely...
Moyers' father, Henry, is a onetime cotton chopper, candy salesman and truck driver who is now a timekeeper at an ordnance works near Marshall, Texas. Henry Moyers never ceases to wonder at Bill's present eminence, for he entertained far less lofty ambitions for both of his sons (James, 38, joined the White House staff Sept. 1 as an administrative assistant). "It makes you awfully proud," says he, "to have raised two boys and to look back and say the police never called to say, 'We've got them in jail...
...would exclaim, using his two favorite words as he moved from base installation to command post to hill lookout sketching all the while. At one point a helicopter almost landed on half a dozen of his drawings spread out on the grass. "Please, please!" Koerner shouted at the whirling chopper Save my drawings...
...Frank waved a last goodbye, stepped back into the chopper and disappeared. He could afford to. He had made it. He had captured 14,000 skeptical jazz fans and made them Sinatra fans. "It makes you believe in God," said a guy in the audience...