Word: derringer
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With Henry Cisneros and Federico Pena leaving the Cabinet, Clinton was under pressure to name a Hispanic to a top job. Now Richardson will have to give up the derring-do of his foreign escapades for the more refined cocktail diplomacy of a United Nations envoy. But the U.N. post...
Casual readers will be most interested in the many stories of inspiring derring-do, as well as cautionary tales of derring-don't--the weight of which tends to suggest that they don't make fabulous spies, or spy catchers, the way they used to. For instance, Josephine Baker, the...
Between 1978 and 1995 Franklin built the tiny organization, called Samaritan's Purse, into a $32 million-a-year operation providing food, medicine and other aid in global crisis zones, while preaching the gospel to its beneficiaries and anyone else in the area. With Franklin--often literally--in the cockpit...
Neither has much in common with Vanity Fair, which is one reason Gingrich likes them. Some troubling realities of that era, such as segregation, were not acknowledged amid the heartwarming Americana served up by the Digest, which featured Unforgettable Characters (an Arctic explorer), animals (What Snakes Are Really Like), business...
Koernke's reaction to the job's drabness appears to have been typically inventive. An officer with the 70th recalls that, he was employed for a time devising "lanes training," a set of simple, pre-scripted troop exercises. The assignment misfired. "Koernke came up with these wildly ambitious, grandiose scenarios...