Word: platoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manless house. "I tried to sell a car and I couldn't find?what do you call it ?the title." And she has a problem with Mike that her dentist cannot handle, nor can she. The blond, rangy boy was switched from offense to linebacker on the defensive platoon for his junior high school football team and came home unhappy. "I couldn't tell him what to do," Jane Grumpier says...
...kicking largely because of the talent-spotting skills of its founding artistic director, Seattle-born Robert Joffrey, 39. Widely regarded as one of the best teachers and coaches in the U.S., Joffrey has a knack for signing up promising unknowns and guiding them to maturity. This season a whole platoon of new young dancers has been turning in pleasurably kinetic and graceful performances. Erika Goodman and Chartel Arthur, both 22, have developed into perky, quicksilver ballerinas with a feathery, light-operatic flair. Alone or with partners, Edward Verso, 28, is a willowy athlete who displays a sure gift for comic...
...appeared to be a premature rest. Though known to have subpoenaed 14 witnesses, seven of whom were on hand, Swan called only three former platoon mates of Mitchell's to the stand. The other witnesses, including two helicopter pilots and an agent who investigated My Lai for the Army, waited in vain to testify. Surrounded by reporters afterward, the 28-year-old prosecutor was peppered with questions. Did he think he had proved his case against Mitchell? "I sure do." Why had he rested his case so suddenly? "I felt it was advantageous to do so." Had he checked...
Kill Count. Calley was still eager when he took his platoon into the countryside south of Danang and set up an ambush for Viet Cong troops. "I knew the V.C. were somewhere nearby because-well, I was in South Viet Nam. Our captain, Captain Medina, wouldn't send me somewhere if I couldn't get a big kill count, right?" For hours nothing happened. Calley's bravado turned to fear when he realized that his inexperienced soldiers had made too much noise to surprise any approaching enemy. "The V.C. must know I'm here. They must...
...ordered a mortar platoon to light up his position with flares. "I could see around for miles-of course, everyone for miles around could also see me." Then came a radio scolding from Medina: " 'You are without doubt the stupidest second lieutenant on the face of this earth.' 'Yes, sir! I am stupid, sir! What should I do?' 'Turn off them goddamned lights...