Word: colonel
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DIED. LORD HUNT, 88, old-school British soldier and explorer, and the brains behind the first trek to the summit of Mount Everest; in Henley, England. Then known as Colonel John Hunt, he engineered the historic ascent by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on May 29, 1953. Hunt's oxygen bottle froze on the way up, and he never reached the peak...
...student from his disapproving, overprotective mother. Bobby quickly learns techniques of inner visualization to invoke his repressed aggression, which means trouble for the world outside the football field. In one of the funniest scenes, Bobby, now in college on scholarship, tackles his professor, a hilarious academic look-alike of Colonel Sanders of "Kentucky Fried Chicken" fame, for insulting his mother. At times,The Waterboy seems to be a vicious Forrest Gump antithesis, quoting directly the famous prefatory phrase "My momma always say...," clinched with bayou-stupidity rather than innocent, simple wisdom...
...Strong Man with a Strong Hand:] Lieut. Colonel George Armstrong Custer, who in 1876 led the 7th Cavalry against the Sioux...
...probably moot since the chance is slim he'll raise his hand and swear an oath before a committee of mostly junior Congressmen peering down at him from their platform armchairs. Clinton would not be likely to have a transcendent, Ollie North moment; he's not an unknown lieutenant colonel with a cause to defend...
...national level. And it's not a knockoff. It's by the same guy. It's like Colonel Sanders opening a new chicken restaurant...