Word: guards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles Chevalier, a flashy guard, and Kevin Loughery, who led all scorers with 19 points, the Eagles really went wild and stretched their lead to 18 points with 6:56 to play. Substitutes from both teams finished out the contest...
Crimson coach Floyd Wilson will likely go with the same starting line-up he has employed all season. This means Griff McClellan in the pivot, Bob Bowditch and Bob Repetto in the corners, and George Harrington and Mike Donahue at guard...
...asking an extension, McElroy hoped to head off arguments that the U.S. could save $28 million a year in draft board administration costs and still keep the services sufficiently strong through volunteer enlistments. In fact, although the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard do not need draftees to maintain their force levels, the Army does: at a current draft rate of 9,000 men a month, 28% of the Army's 804,000-man enlisted personnel is drafted. More important, as McElroy pointed out, the omnipresent threat of selective service "stimulates" young men to volunteer...
...deferred, e.g., as a student, a farmer, a scientist or a hardship case. Thousands of 17-and 18-year-olds exercise their alternative right of fulfilling military obligations with six months of active duty and 7½ years of weekly drill and summer camp in the reserves or National Guard...
...because they were being addressed by a total stranger, a few murmured shy agreement. A reckless one or two applauded these strong words, never before uttered aloud on the Underground. Passengers who had docilely left the train discovered what was going on and re-entered like lions. The helpless guard fetched the station master, and the intimidated station master fetched a policeman, who blandly said he could do nothing unless the passengers were disorderly, and clearly they were not. For half an hour the embattled mutineers ignored threats and blandishments. Then the station master gave in, and the train went...