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Word: hotshots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...written by a Brautigan disciple in faithful Brautiganese). And right in Karl Deutsch's spiritual presence, Brautigan read his "Up Against the Ivory Tower," which tells the hotshot academic...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Golden, | Title: Richard Brautigan On Saturday Night | 11/26/1969 | See Source »

Most recruits were given a few hours of training and shipped off to the nearest fire, but the BLM designated 50 of that morning's volunteers as a special "Hotshot" unit with the hope that a little more formal schooling would turn them into an elite outfit like the trained crews from native villages. The men were paid $45 a day and allowed to vegetate for a week at the smokejumper base under the guise of intensive training...

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: Why Not Let the Forests Burn? | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...squad spent its afternoons collecting spiders for a Finnish arachnologist, while other men spend hours creatively decorating their metal helmets with goose feathers, McCarthy buttons, toilet paper, obscene photographs, and extremely elaborate designs and slogans chipped in the green, white, and blue Hotshot helmet paint. Wearing the more elaborately decorated helmets became a status symbol and an expression of defiance of busy-work...

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: Why Not Let the Forests Burn? | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

Much-storied Yale football star Brian Dowling and hitherto unheralded Harvard ace Frank Champi matched vocal cunning on Saturday's quiz show, Dating Game, and both lost out to some hotshot from the West Coast with a moustache...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Champi, Dowling Draw Again, 0-0 | 1/6/1969 | See Source »

...such answers were not enough to turn the heart of the girl who got to choose. She went for the hotshot, who had introduced himself in French...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Champi, Dowling Draw Again, 0-0 | 1/6/1969 | See Source »

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