Word: crocker
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...commissions, as do nearly 25% of their class. Both are obsessed by the idea of a Viet Nam memorial in Washington. But Wheeler favors the final design; Carhart, a lifelong iconoclast, censures the "black gash of shame and sorrow, hacked into the national visage that is the Mall." George Crocker, the classic warrior-aristocrat, is far removed from that fray. He distinguishes himself in combat, rises to lieutenant colonel and becomes the liberator of Grenada, a John Wayne figure "doing men things in a manly manner with other...
...Whalers want MacDonald to come to Hartford as soon as the Crimson's season is over. Assistant General Manager Bob Crocker would like to see MacDonald in a Hartford uniform for this year's NHL playoffs. But Crocker is not likely to get his wish...
...Lane's forte is his skating," Crocker said. "He is an excellent skater and a bigger player than we thought. He is also stronger for having gone through the Olympic program...
...hoping he would be able to make a contribution right off the bat," Crocker continued. "Tomorrow, he could skate in this league. The big question is the adjustment to the physical aspects of the game...
Plus a course in the politics of southern Africa (professor: Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker), a tutorial on neoconservative thought (professor: Irving Kristol of the American Enterprise Institute), and a briefing on the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) by Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb. And all for just one pupil: Vice President J. Danforth Quayle...