Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Juniors Gia Johnson (right) and Sue St. Louis (left) were voted captains of next year's women's soccer team succeeding Stefi Baum, Julie Brynteson and Ellen Hart...
...surprises came from people like long jumper Jim Johnson, triple jumper Shawn Hall, sprinter Marc Chapus and hurdler Chuck Johnson, all of whom won their events. These fine performances, added to the customary superb distance running from All-Americans Thad McNulty, John Murphy and Adam Dixon, as well as Noel Scidmore, Peter Johnson and others, to provide the Crimson with...
Strolling along a row like a window shopper on a summer day, Kevin Johnson stumbles across a coincidence much to his liking. Pointing to the first name on a marker, he commands Martha Hale: "Lay down, Martha. You're dead." The joke, Martha decides, is meant kindly, and she joins in the laughter that scatters over the scene like the sunbeams through the moss-fringed trees...
...hostages were frequently questioned about their work and accused of plotting against the new Iranian regime. Said Lillian Johnson, 32, a secretary in the embassy's security office: "There was lots of interrogation, believe me, at weird hours of the night until they were convinced [that the hostages were telling the truth]." The Americans also had to listen to anti-U.S. and anti-Carter harangues by their captors. For some of the men there were additional hardships. They were handcuffed rather than bound with cloth...
Presidents had to move on instinct. And with every President since Harry Truman, when the orders went out and the troops moved, the U.S. was very much by itself. "Where are my friends?" Lyndon Johnson used to wonder on many a night when he was bogged down in Viet Nam after having been urged on by Asian allies. Richard Nixon, once described as being tougher than a boiled owl, knew better. He never expected much help in anything...