Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...told Kelly, "If you leave me, I'll hurt you and I'll kill myself." When Zigo left the hospital, Flinn took him in. She bought a new car--the Jeep he'd always wanted. He was living in her house on Dec. 13 when Flinn's commander, Lieut. Colonel Theodore LaPlante, ordered her to have no further contact with Marc. Flinn signed a statement acknowledging she understood the order. A week later, Kelly took him to Georgia for Christmas to meet her parents...
...thorough, researching such items as foreplay, favorite positions and birth control. Relatives have learned for the first time of their loved one's infidelities from investigators inquiring about his or her sexual habits. In one such instance, reported in the Washington Post, the 78-year-old mother of Lieut. Colonel Karen Tew became fed up with their probing and finally told them "I didn't know and why didn't they just ask her." Tew, who was married, eventually pleaded guilty to an affair with an enlisted man; she was dismissed from the service last March, a year...
...COLONEL DAVID HACKWORTH Was Admiral Boorda's medal detector caught in a decoration inflation...
...Force insists it isn't the adultery that did Flinn in but disobeying an order and lying. Once again, it's the cover-up, not the crime. Why wasn't she given counseling, a reprimand or reassignment? At the same base where Flinn was being hounded, a lieutenant colonel having an affair with his secretary was given a reprimand and fined $4,600 last year. Late last week the Air Force put out feelers encouraging Flinn to resign. Too bad she didn't refuse to go quietly...
...great 19th century commemorator in sculpture was the Irish-born Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907). His deepest memorial was dedicated to the Union Army's Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who led the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, made up entirely of black volunteers, in a death charge on the ramparts of Fort Wagner in South Carolina. It is an extraordinary work, not only because of its sculptural mastery and its integration of Renaissance motifs into a modern matrix, but also for its content: one of the very few 19th century American treatments of blacks in art that neither mocks nor condescends...