Word: cruisers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earned an M.A. in foreign affairs at Oxford after his Annapolis years, the Chicago-born Turner has logged an impressive career both at sea and on land. Most of his ship time has been served aboard destroyers; after receiving his two rear-admiral stars in 1970, he commanded a cruiser-destroyer flotilla that stalked the Soviets' Mediterranean squadron. The following year he went to the Pentagon as the Navy's director of systems analysis...
...Fight. K turned out to be little better than L. She got a cabin cruiser, but Rees left her, too, when he found out that she was a "lesbian swinger and crazy." Eluding the purported gunmen -he did not explain how-the fugitive moved on, alone, to Albuquerque and Santa Fe, "where every time I looked around the FBI was on my trail...
Linked to the Patriarch's slipping are the tropics continually decaying: dusty palms, the band playing on Sundays in the park, the abandoned American cruiser rusting at its dock. The brilliant fantasy of Garcia Marquez's details exorcizes tropical nostalgia, and makes The Autumn of the Patriarch the rarest novel to appear this year...
...fascination for the grotesque had almost been satisfied when someone ran up to the intersection and stopped a Cambridge police cruiser driving through. I recognized him--he had been in my Bio section last year. It seems he had just been held up and robbed in the Common. He was trying to explain that to the cop in the cruiser when another officer shouted at him for blocking traffic. The cop in the cruiser pulled over grouchily to talk to the kid, who was scared and breathing hard. The cop took a description of the robber, filled out a four...
After talking a while, fiddling with his radio, and wasting enough time to let any half-wise robber disappear, the first policeman told his partner and the student to get in the car, and they moved out. The cruiser raced back to catch the criminal with its high beams on and blue lights flashing. Even a sleeping wino would have fled the area. The cruiser drove right onto the Common as if it expected to find someone waiting there, but the Common, of course, was empty...