Word: ensigns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leonard McCoy, who in one episode contracted an incurable disease and fell in love with the green high priestess of a doomed planetoid; Chief Engineer Scott ("Scotty"), for whom "relaxation is a stack of technical journals"; Lieut. Uhura, the black female communications officer who sings soprano for relaxation; and Ensign Chekov, the Russian pilot. The stars were greeted by standing ovations...
...idea (a recurring one in Shakespeare) of nobles renouncing the splendor, gaiety and fleshly corruption of the court for a quasi-religious retreat amid the guileless innocence of the countryside. The King of Navarre (David Suchet) proposes to his three attendant lords, Longaville (Robert Ashby), Dumaine (Michael Ensign) and Berowne (Ian Richardson), that they form "a little academe." They pledge to meditate, study, fast, and forswear women. This pledge is scarcely uttered when four devilishly distracting ladies appear on the sylvan scene...
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, Ford gave up a budding law practice in Grand Rapids and joined the Navy as an ensign. His first assignment ? whipping raw recruits into physical shape at the University of North Carolina ? was not Ford's idea of fighting a war. He kept requesting sea duty, and in a year he got his wish. He was assigned to the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Monterey in the South Pacific. Although he was under enemy fire in several major battles, his closest brush with death came during a typhoon that nearly washed him overboard; he was saved...
...wives of servicemen, whatever their personal fears, could at last believe that the ordeal's end was beginning. Somehow the event seems even more distant than 30 years. There have been other wars, changing alliances, crises. None has stimulated the exultant unity of which D-day was the ensign. Hope, the real victor at Normandy and later World War II battlefields, went on to suffer a succession of blows that only now may be relenting...
...chaotic entanglements are as predictable as the first few tricky moves of a cat's cradle. The rivals, Bob Acres and Sir Lucius O'Trigger, vie for the hand of lovely Lydia Languish, who remains cloistered under the guardianship of her old-maid aunt, Mrs. Malaprop. Disguised as Ensign Beverly, Captain Absolute has already secretly won Lydia's favor, but when his father, Anthony Absolute arranges his marriage to Lydia using his real title, Lydia rebuffs...