Word: raider
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...means a lot for Marion to be a Marine. His father was in the corps, and his uniform still fits. The time is 1943, and a young man's honor is at stake. Waiting for an eastbound bus. Marion buys a drink for a full-fledged Marine Raider, who wears a skull-and-cross-bones patch on his sleeve and stares fixedly ahead, as if trying to make out messages on the liquor bottles. Marion listens to the Marine's reminiscences of battle, envies all his medals. The Raider is of a rather different frame of mind...
Colgate's coaching vacancy opened up when Neil Wheelwright recently opted to move on to Holy Cross. Restic molded the Red Raider's offense from 1959-62, rising to offensive coordinator, before moving to Harvard...
Yale Coach Carmen Cozza just may have assigned George Allen's book on football as homework for his Bulldogs. Yale's defense forced three costly Colgate turnovers in the first half. Linebacker John Smoot recovered two fumbles and picked off an errant Red Raider pass to set up three Eli scores...
...year he set up the Retired Professionals Action Group, which will shortly issue a searing report on the hearing-aid industry. College students are said to be apathetic and inward-turning these days, but Nader's representatives have no trouble recruiting the most able students for low-paying "Raider" jobs in the summertime. Even more important, some 41 student PIRGS-for Public Interest Research Groups-are now under way in 16 states. PIRG students make small contributions to support full-time consumer advocates at state and local levels. The PlRGs, says Nader, "operate independently-our only connection with them...
...witnesses testified, they soon revealed that they had been drawn into the affair without quite realizing what they were doing, that they were more adept at taking orders than understanding them. John J. Caulfield, an ex-cop who had carried an offer of Executive clemency to convicted Watergate Raider James W. McCord Jr., described how he had been "injected into this scandal," how he had been forced to choose between obeying the law and obeying the White House, and Sam Ervin remarked: "The greatest conflicts in this world are when we try to choose between two loyalties...