Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fellow catcher Jim DePalo leads Harvard in walks, with 17. After enduring a zero for nine stretch at Princeton and Navy, he has worked his average back...
...Kerrey, who won a Congressional Medal of Honor and lost part of a leg fighting with the Navy SEAL commandos in Viet Nam, maintains that if memories of the ordeal in Southeast Asia were not still so strong, "we'd be in Nicaragua now." In Congress, Kerrey's fellow Democrats fret that the Administration's commitment to resist the spread of Marxist revolution throughout the isthmus could eventually bog down American troops in another endless jungle guerrilla...
...were four to seven times as likely to try to escape as non-thrill seekers, presumably because they found prison life so intolerably dull and routine. The studies also showed that Type Ts at prisons engaged in fighting and other disruptive acts at a far higher rate than their fellow inmates...
...reality, the U.S. and Japan were still a long way from an outright trade war, which would involve a series of trade reprisals by both sides. "Like real wars," says I.M. Destler, a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics in Washington, "trade wars tend to leave everybody worse off." Two years after Washington passed the virulently protectionist Smoot-Hawley bill in 1930, the wave of trade and currency reprisals that it provoked slashed U.S. exports by 60%, helping deepen the Great Depression. Japan's obsession with maintaining supplies of raw materials for its export industries was largely responsible...
After he sent in the bombers after the Gulf of Tonkin affair, he said, "I figured that if you go for a fellow, you don't just goose him. We hit a base in North Viet Nam with 25 PT boats." But by June 1964 he was cautious. "People urging stronger steps are not aware of the consequences. I don't feel that we should pull out and come home. As far as going north, we know there are 200 million in the Chinese army. If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million...