Word: frowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some aircraft authorities expressed surprise that Bond would have been allowed to take the Flogger up. Even though the general had recently passed a rigorous "Class 2" Air Force physical, which includes aerobic stress tests and other exacting measurements, some Air Force officials frown on pilots over the age of 45 flying solo in high-performance craft. "Why was Bond flying a plane like that, when he was on the verge of retirement?" asks an Air Force source. Bond's judgment, as well as that of his superiors, will doubtless be one of the points covered in a special...
...forms was centered at Claiborne, whose master, Seth Hancock, had been the syndicator of Devil's Bag. So he commended one horse but owned the other. As Devil's Bag's form was declining, Swale was winning the Florida Derby, and Hancock was caught between a frown and a smile. Meanwhile, Stephens fell ill from emphysema, compounded by a rib-rattling fall and exasperated by the collapse of the special horse. "Devil's Bag just never found himself this year," murmured Stephens, 70, who was furloughed from the hospital to watch Swale in person. Looking small...
...actions to the President. I invited him to do so and asked for an appointment with Reagan. I felt that the end had come. When we met on Monday, June 14, in the Oval Office, Reagan was hi a troubled mood, his usual sunny countenance drawn into a worried frown. We were alone. "Al," he asked, "what would you do if you were a general and one of your lower commanders went around you and acted...
...related the details of my encounter with Clark. I told Reagan that I believed the cease-fire he had proposed in Lebanon had been delayed, and loss of life needlessly continued, as a result of the petty maneuvering by his staff. As he listened, the President's frown deepened. "Mr. President," I said, "I want you to understand what's going on around you. I simply can no longer operate in this atmosphere. It's too dangerous. It doesn't serve your purposes; it doesn't serve...
...said. "That's the way you get beat. The Orioles didn't get here by quitting, and we didn't either." Baltimore won the fifth game too, 5-4, again with scant help from its finest player, Eddie Murray. He and Mike Schmidt wore the same frown. (All statistics will be rendered meaningless at the outset of World War III.) The Orioles had unloaded their supply of pinch hitters all at once. (If everybody feels they're somebody, you end up with a team on the bench as good as the one on the field...