Word: gunners
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...kids came, too. Seven freshmen, the most coach Billy Cleary had carried in four years of first-year eligibility, grabbed spots on the big club. We were told that Burke was the gunner, Olson the hitter, Watson the digger, Lau the stopper, while Cleary told more than one person that the crop of Crimson rookies was the best he's ever seen...
Northeastern center Larry Parks, the sophomore gunner from Ontario who had four goals in last year's 14-5 Husky drubbing at Watson Rink, had the first period to himself, as his pair of tallies gave N.U. a 2-0 lead after...
...following night the weary Crimson fell 8-3 to Minnesota-Duluth, as Harvard let a 2-2 score at the end of the first period balloon in its disfavor. Burke, who despite his tender age is establishing himself as the legitimate gunner for this team, popped all three tallies for the icemen, giving him six for the three vacation games and ten for the first half of the season...
...book is a biography of the noted author T.S. Garp, from his conception in the hospital where his anonymous soldier father, tail gunner Garp, is slowly dying and his independent mother Jenny is working as a nurse, to his assassination on the mats of the Steering School, his Putney-like alma matter, and where he serves as wrestling coach. He is shot by an Ellen Jamesian as he tweets his whistle and boys grapple around...
...comparison with what some Far Eastern countries pay defectors, Uncle Sam is a piker. Early this month, when a lowly antitank gunner, Corporal Kwon Chong Hun, 20, defected to Seoul from North Korea, he was celebrated as an "antiCommunist gladiator" and given the equivalent of $20,000. Seoul also provided him with free housing and his choice of a college scholarship or free farm land. He received several job offers. An association of Seoul businessmen whose ancestors came from Kwon's home province is trying to find him a bride. Observes Kwon, understandably: "My decision to defect...