Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forces might become too cocky. Even that eventuality, however, was being taken into account in the careful Nixon manner. "I think we started the campaign definitely on an upbeat note," said Nixon. "But we've got to keep it that way. There's no overconfidence in this crew this time...
...have either trailed or been tied in the seventh inning or later, and still managed to squeak out a victory. In 27 games, they have scored the winning run in their last turn at bat. A tight defense, enough depth to permit platooning of players, and a strong bullpen crew that has saved 21 games so far, have all figured strongly in Detroit's push toward the pennant...
With Holden was an intrepid crew filming a documentary that will be seen on CBS next season. The one-hour production will mark Narrator Holden's TV debut. Ten years ago he left Hollywood and became a co-owner of the Mount Kenya Safari Club. He has since become an avid conservationist, and decided only recently that he would go on TV because he wanted to tell the story of Kenya's ecology...
...Holden with a series of perhaps nine African documentaries. After he outlined his intentions and explained the terrain, Producer David Seltzer concluded that U.S. cameramen were out of the question ("Those American prima donnas would have been on strike an hour after they got here"). Seltzer recruited a Dutch crew and 21 African assistants. The expedition could have saved thousands of dollars and two weeks' time by flying directly into the lake from Nairobi. But Holden and Seltzer ruled that out as cheating. So off they trekked through the Kenyan wastelands...
...example, Holden got word that a circumcision rite would take place at a nearby encampment of Samburu warriors. Rousing his men at 4 a.m., he led them on foot through several miles of country overrun with predators. The crew arrived in time to catch the Samburus reeling into a catatonic frenzy. Then the tribal elder drew his knife. The cameraman closed in so tight that he got blood on his camera. And Bill Holden, who, as one Wolper man put it, had played it all along like "the essential Hemingway man," admitted that suddenly he grew "weak in the knees...