Word: mount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to crewmen, tensions began to mount on the Kitty Hawk almost as soon as Captain Marland W. Townsend Jr. took command in June. Formal and aloof, Townsend replaced Owen Oberg, a popular commanding officer who was given to moving among his crew and not above on occasion going over the side of the ship in a bosun's chair to wield a symbolic chip hammer. "He treated everyone as a minority of one," explained one sailor. Oberg had a way of sympathizing with the crew even when passing out an unpopular order, like the frequent extensions...
...credit for Mazda's forward drive goes to C.R. ("Dick") Brown, who became general manager of the main U.S. operation two years ago. The parent company, Toyo Kogyo, had previously set up separate importers in the Northwest and Florida. Brown convinced his Japanese bosses that they should quickly mount a high-volume marketing effort throughout the nation. A former sales director for American Motors in Canada, Brown realized that the key to Mazda's acceptance would be a strong lineup of dealers who could explain and service the unfamiliar engine...
...team also placed second behind Mount Holyoke, the second highest scorer at the meet, in the 150-yard breast stroke relay, and placed fifth in the 200-yard medley relay...
...Brooks' delirious comedy The Producers, two shysters raise far more backing than necessary, then mount the worst musical play they can find, hoping to abscond after a disastrous opening (and closing) night with their pockets full of unspent production money. For their sure-fire disaster, they chose a project called Springtime for Hitler. Had the script of The Great Waltz been available, it might have served just as well...
...Grover came out of nowhere for several reasons -the Nixon landslide, Briscoe's own indifferent campaign, the presence of a Mexican-American candidate who drew many Chicano votes that normally would have gone to the Democrats. Backed by a cabal of ultra-right Houston businessmen, Grover did not mount an attractive campaign: he railed against revenue sharing and state taxes on personal and corporate income, and told a Houston TV interviewer that "I just don't care about the black and Chicano vote." Briscoe finally emerged as the narrow winner in the late counting...