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...final." When he learned by mail while in Vietnam that Susan was smoking as a teenager, he wrote back and told her to stop. From then on she never even thought of sneaking a cigarette. "Newtie," as his mother calls him to this day, was the kind of "nonreg" kid, Bob would admit later, that he would have transferred out of his unit in a heartbeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWT GINGRICH; MASTER OF THE HOUSE | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

Since Drummer Hughes was at parade rest at the time, with his hands behind his back, he judged with impeccable correctness that it would be nonreg to reach around and give the bird a swipe with his fist. So he just let it stay there. It is also somewhat nonreg, at parade rest, to grin from ear to ear. Hughes and nearby middies had less success on this point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Parade Rest | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

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