Word: craw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Kristin Norstad, 21, only daughter of NATO Commander General Lauris Norstad; and Nicholas Wesson Craw, 22, student at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and son of Medal-of-Honor-winning Army Air Corps Colonel Demas Craw, who was machine-gunned by Vichy troops on a truce mission in the North Africa campaign in 1942; in Paris...
...there is one kind of hombre that clogs up Dooley's craw so tight he can hardly spit: the professional gambler. When Bret Maverick (James Garner) rides into town in search of buried gold, Deputy Diefendorfer has no trouble spotting him for the cardsharp he really is. "He's wearing a clean white shirt and a black necktie," explains Diefendorfer, "and he's winning, Muster Dooley." Outraged, Marshal Dooley heaves Maverick out of town, has to repeat the performances twice more when Maverick keeps sneaking back. "We're sure getting some strange breeds in Ellwood lately...
...among the first to enlist, one of the earliest transfers to the Army Signal Corps' budding air arm. After that, there was no turning for him. "I have tasted of the air," he wrote his father, "and I cannot get it out of my craw...
ALEXANDER R. CRAW Frederick...
...prisoners. The U.N. proposed to reclassify and move out of its stockades all prisoners unwilling to return to Communist control, so that, at the time of any exchange, all remaining prisoners would be available for repatriation. The Communists were interested in this; but it still stuck in their craw that three out of four of the U.N.'s Chinese prisoners had indicated that they would forcibly resist any attempt to send them home. The Reds continued to demand the unconditional exchange of all "foreign" (non-Korean) prisoners. Nevertheless, they asked for a one-day recess to study...