Word: holloman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flowers from the start. He was in the Air Force; she was in the Army. They fell in love while they were studying broadcasting and journalism, respectively, at the Defense Information School in Indianapolis. And then they carried on a long-distance romance between New Mexico's Holloman Airbase, where he was assigned to a supply unit, and Fort Lee, Va., where she worked as an Army journalist. Personnel officers at both bases assured them that he would have no difficulty transferring to a supply unit in Fort Lee, so Private First Class Richard Venema, then 21, and Sergeant...
...closing of even a single hospital sparks a bitter political fight. The hospitals not only provide health care but are also a source of jobs, and they are overstaffed with doctors and other employees. Dr. John Holloman, $65,000-a-year director of the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation, has resisted cutbacks; he even quashed a report on possible economies that was prepared by his own staff. A close observer of city affairs notes hyperbolically: "Some of the neighbors, in league with the more radical doctors, will riot, kill and burn to keep the hospital from being closed...
...last .400 hitter. Pitcher Cy Young's record of 511 victories has held for two generations. This permanence extends to the game's oddballs, men like Casey Stengel, who once tipped his hat to the crowd and released a bird that was nesting in his hair; Bobo Holloman, who pitched only one complete game in the majors-and that one a no-hitter. There are players whose names alone could render them immortal: Eli Grba, Fenton Mole, Eppa Rixey, Wally Pipp, Napoleon Lajoie. All these men, the immortals and the "flakes," exist like the game beyond the erosions...
...Martin Luther King spoke in 1968, just three months after her husband's assassination. Allard K. Lowenstein, the man who fashioned the Dump Johnson Movement in 1968, gave the address the following year. Herbert Holloman, the former assistant Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and now President of the University of Oklahoma, was here in 1970. The speaker in 1971 was Jimmy Breslin (the nearest thing to Woody Allen but still an outspoken political figure), and last year it was New York Times columnist Tom Wicker...