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...word of caution should be inserted for those not quite as gung-ho about Thanksgiving football rivalries: a number of minor incidents involving over-zealous and perhaps over-indulging fans have resulted in mobs from one school carrying off fans from their rivals and dumping them off the top of the stands. Well, boys will be boys. Also, you might want to park your car a good distance from the stadium, for there have been a few isolated rock-throwing incidents reported...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Gamesmanship | 10/5/1973 | See Source »

...dirt, men!" one officer yelled-to the relief of Pfc. Willie Wilkins from Akron, who proceeded to lie face down in the sand. "These people can be gung-ho," he muttered, "but I'm just going to play the game. I can give you my opinion of this entire operation in two words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: The Marines Battle for Argos | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

THURSDAY: Alexander Nevsky. (1938) Sergei Eisenstein's epic of 13th century warfare in Russia scarcely veils its gung-ho John Wayne-style plumping for Josef Stalin and his then-tough policy towards Hitler's Germany. CH.2...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 5/10/1973 | See Source »

Special Forces Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler made a quarter-of-a-million dollars within three months by writing that paean, The Ballad of the Green Berets, one of the big song hits of the gung-ho days of 1966. Sadler himself stayed on with the Green Berets for 18 months, then took a discharge and set out to scale the heights of folk music. He never quite made it. "I went broke three times," Sadler laments. "I just didn't have the knack of keeping money." Today he is vice president of an auto-battery firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Among the Famous and the Forgotten | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

...Most people are expecting us to look past this game to Penn, but we're definitely not," head coach Bruce Munro this game, and they are the kind of gung ho, running team that could upset our normal style of play," he added...

Author: By Charless B. Straus, | Title: Favored Crimson Booters Host Dartmouth Today | 10/27/1972 | See Source »

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