Word: rangers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sound like a school play recorded in someone's basement rec room. Several distributors, meanwhile, have merely rounded up cheap off-network TV programming and labeled it children's video. The widely distributed Kids Klassics offer such less than scintillating fare as an episode of the old Lone Ranger TV series for a rock-bottom $9.95. Each cassette is no more than 30 $ minutes long and is frequently padded out with a commercial...
...most exotic place with the most exotic people in North America, but making every Texan as a most honest, least scrupulous, or add-your-own-superlative adjective variation on John Wayne just isn't real. Otto McNab, the Mexican-killingest, honestest, independentest, good-community-manest Texas Ranger is almost so absurd that the book becomes humor rather than drama. There were some pretty tough Rangers, but none so epic in every quality...
...Senate Armed Services Committee. In strategic planning, the concern of each Chief has often been to secure a piece of the action for his own service. A prime example is the 1983 invasion , of Grenada, which turned from a Navy-Marines show into an operation also involving Army Ranger battalions and Air Force transports and gunships. Their inclusion, the Pentagon's own after-battle studies show, merely sowed confusion. In budgetary planning, the JCS has rarely made hard decisions as to whether money might be best spent on ships, tanks or fighter planes; usually the Chiefs have simply stapled together...
...turn out to be tainted," complained Gladys Roost, 80, a Dodger fan in Los Angeles. Shirley Murphy, 33, a secretary in Baltimore, agreed. "It is a damn shame that these guys can't depend on their talent to see them through," she said. Declared Ralph Bass, 63, a Texas Ranger booster: "Making that kind of money, they ought to set a better example...
...Americans like Richard Corkan, a disabled veteran who served for two years as a Ranger in I Corps. "I have mixed feelings about it all," says Corkan. He does not have nightmares anymore, but sometimes in the deep of night, he blurts out in his sleep, "Who's on guard?" Sitting in the George N. Meredith V.F.W. Post 924 in Anniston, Ala., Corkan says slowly, "I don't know. Viet Nam just stays on your mind...