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...such gung-ho spirit, the ferocious Lions on Thanksgiving Day went after Green Bay and, in full sight of a nationwide TV audience, showed that the Packers were vincible. Shooting holes in the nervous Packer defense, the Lions' Quarterback Milt Plum fired two quick touchdown passes to End Gail Cogdill for a 14-0 lead early in the second quarter. And when the Packers got the ball, the Lions' crushing defense made it even more embarrassing. The first time Packer Quarterback Bart Starr faded back to pass, he was dumped for a 15-yd. loss. Again and again...
...That's all right," she replied cheerily, cheerily as she could after being awakened by the phone. "I'll wear my boots and raincoat. I really love football, I'm really gung...
...yard line seats, about halfway up the stands. Within seconds a moist chill had permeated my bottom. Dammit, I had forgotten to bring something to sit on. Susan was singing the Latin words to "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard." She really was gung-ho. Or maybe she dated someone in the hand...
...fourth quarter Susan was complaining. About every two minutes she was complaining. About her feet, her hands, her bottom. I suggested that we leave. "Don't be a jerk," she replied cheerily, "I'm going to prove I'm gung-ho. We stay till the end." I watched the clock creep toward zero. Finally the last play was run off, or so I thought. There was time for one more and we sat down again. There was a puddle there...
Schirra spent time on carriers and at naval shore bases. When the Korean war got going, he was assigned to an Arkansas National Guard squadron as an exchange pilot. His flying mates remember him as "a gung-ho, heads-up, by-the-book Annapolis man." but they forgave him because he was such a good pilot. He flew 90 missions, mostly ground strafing and low-level bombing. His missions got him credit for 1½ MIGs, a Distinguished Flying Cross and two Air Medals. He also buzzed a U.S. camp, blew down lines of tents and was hotly reprimanded...