Word: crew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Much Force. To an extent, Ford should be aided in his personal diplomacy by his firmness in dispatching Marines and U.S. fighter-bombers to force Cambodia to give up the Mayaguez and its crew. Some Europeans believed that he used too much force. But White House aides thought that the rescue operation, at the very least, demonstrated to allied leaders Ford's ability to act swiftly and decisively...
...left home at twelve. He worked delivering ice in Philly; I worked delivering ice in Newark." The physical similarities are less precise, however, and Steiger requires a two-hour makeup job before stepping in front of the cameras. As for Fields' distinctive voice, Steiger has asked the film crew to forgo their Fields impressions on the set. "It's so catching," he explains. "Everyone thinks they can do it, but it only throws...
...main sports in the spring that may find candidates for post graduate work in the athletic field are baseball and crew as the lacrosse squad had only four seniors and tennis, track, golf were not studded with professional-or-world-class players. The lack of senior women on Radcliffe athletic teams also rules them out of active sports, action next year. But Radcliffe does have a number of underclasswomen who are serious contenders for seats in the national crew team...
...until now, she says, the Radcliffe crew has been the only well-coordinated women's program on campus...
...soon a wind starts to whistle somewhere behind those empty spaces. The rhythmic monotony on board ship ("Will relieves Buddy, Byrum relieves Will, Wodies relieves Byrum") is broken by staccato quarrels and spurts of activity when the turtles are hauled in. The crew members emerge from anonymity as their speech patterns and private obsessions are repeated. The dialects begin to tease the ear with unheard melodies. Descriptive passages, when they occur, achieve a haunting beauty: "Where the bonita chop the surface, the minnows spray into the air in silver showers, all across the sunlit coral...