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...retire 22 ships this year starkly illustrates the dilemma. It placed the ships in mothballs in order to comply with a congressional order that it trim the sails of its 1983 spending. But the Navy did not want to cut planned procurement of new ships. Of the 13 Forrest Sherman-class escort destroyers that were retired, twelve had been extensively overhauled within the past two years. Of the four Decatur-class guided-missile destroyers retired, three had been recently overhauled. Even some Navy fleet commanders were dismayed by the retirement of five landing-dock ships (four of which had recently...
...there's still Forrest Mars, the confectionary mogul, who reportedly opens up board meetings by leading the assembled executives in prayer: "God bless Mars Bars, God bless Milky Way bars...." If he gets a bright idea, J. Woodland Hastings will wake up in Snickers House...
Engines and tempers ran hot as traffic backed up four miles on Interstate 40 near Forrest City, Ark. Most drivers suspected an accident, but those with CB radios knew better. Up ahead nearly 50 police officers and Murfy, a pot-sniffing dog, were checking out cars in one of the largest roadblocks in recent years. After 22 hours, the team had nailed 489 people on offenses ranging from expired licenses to possession of marijuana. St. Francis County expects to collect $20,000 in fines, and Sheriff Sam Ashworth pronounced the roadblock just about the best thing since sirens for scaring...
...student survey was made in the first week of March for the student newspaper. The Sagebrush, by Susie Forrest, a journalism student from New York...
...while the camera glides around the ordinary hero and heroine like the young Astaire around a lamppost. They are ordinary indeed. As played by Teri Garr, Frannie is a Shirley MacLaine gamine minus the cutes and the smarts and the go-get-'em will. Her fella, Hank (Frederic Forrest), who works in an automobile graveyard, is just as lackluster. Sitting at the breakfast table with his beer belly peeking through a towel toga, Hank looks like the last of the Caesars-Sid, playing late Brando. The apogée of their romantic arc is long in the past, almost...