Word: ralph
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...force. But observers contend that women, once investigated, draw harsher noncriminal penalties. According to one seasoned pilot (in a custom dubbed by others "different spanks for different ranks"), the "higher the person who commits the offense, the less happens to him." Critics cite the cases of Rear Admiral Ralph Tindal, who in 1995 was fined, demoted and confined to quarters for 30 days after an affair with a petty officer, and Lieut. Lisa Kelly, who, after liaisons with two enlisted men, had to plea-bargain to avoid a 19-year prison sentence...
...years ago--on July 2, 1922, to be precise--that pioneer Ralph Samuelson strapped on the first pair of water skis on Lake Pipen in Minnesota. In 1985 a surfer aptly named Tony Finn developed a hybrid between a water ski and a surfboard called the Skurfer. But that skiboard was so narrow and buoyant that only the most experienced skiers could work it. Before skiboarding sank like a stone, water-ski manufacturer Herb O'Brien came up with the Hyperlite, a carbon-graphite board of neutral buoyancy with large dimples on the bottom (phasers, to those in the know...
...Washington janitor named James Hampton, The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly. The visionary urge appeared less often in professional art, until Modernism arrived. There are elements of it in the work of Thomas Cole and in the dark, brooding landscapes of Ralph Blakelock (1847-1919), who was to suffer a depressive breakdown and spend the last 20 years of his life in a mental hospital. But the exemplar of the visionary state was Blakelock's exact contemporary, Albert Pinkham Ryder...
Harvard had added its insurance with a run in the fifth and one in the eighth. With runners on first and third and no outs in the fifth, junior Brian Ralph singled to center to bring in Harvard's third run of the game. The Crimson scored in the eighth on an RBI single by junior Brett Vankoski...
...Ralph E. Vatner '99 supported the proposal because it levels the Core distribution between the humanities and sciences...