Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student and football star, Powell followed a deep Southern tradition by deciding on a military career. In 1961 he was admitted to the Air Force Academy in Colorado, only to be expelled six months before graduation for cheating on a history exam (he glanced at a course outline during a break). "You don't know what loneliness is," he says, "until you drive into your driveway at home, in the Deep South, on Christmas Eve, having just had your ass booted out of a military academy." He went on to Georgia State University, where he earned a degree...
...subjects that have little to do with economic development are preoccupying the leaders of Asia. Both issues have been raised by the Carter Administration, both are unpopular, and both cause deep concern. They are the proposed withdrawal of U.S. ground troops from South Korea, and the abrupt new emphasis on human rights...
...week later it's the touch football championship, and Winthrop is locked in a scoreless tie with Lowell. In the final play of the half, Lowell is deep in its own territory with the length of the field to go for a touchdown. Coach Rich Brody instructs Winthrop defenseman Bob Phoopher to drop back and allow his man any reception as long as it's not a touchdown. Phoopher remembers these words, and starts the play forty yards off the line of scrimmage. He remembers as the pass goes up and he's still ten yards closer than...
...year later, it's the touch football championship again, this time against Adams. In the key play of the game, Winthrop is deep in its own territory, and quarterback Alan "Doble House" Dawes drops back to pass. He's caught by a defender on the one-yard line, but referees Frank Crimmins and Jim Gostylo--both Winthrop House members--signal safety, giving Adams House two points and the ball...
...next couple of months, two blockbuster war movies, Mac Arthur and A Bridge Too Far (which cost almost three times as much as Lucas' film), will open with their own galaxies of stars-old-fashioned Hollywood stars. In addition, there will be underwater adventure in The Deep, straight suspense in The Sorcerer (William Friedkin's remake of that wonderful old French movie The Wages of Fear), and devilish terror in Exorcist II: The Heretic...