Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lunch at Paris' No. 1 restaurant." Though his first missions (he spends from a day to a week on each one) proved more of a challenge to Powell's patience than his derring-do, the Sketch was confident that its man in a million would recruit readers by the thousands...
Aeronutronic's rocket, named Far Side, lacks the streamlined style of surface-starting rockets. Its first stage is a cluster of four Recruit solid-propellant rocket motors, made by Thiokol Chemical Corp. at Elkton, Md., each with 40,000 lbs. of thrust. Stage Two is a single Recruit. Stage Three is four clustered Arrow II rockets (thrust: 250 lbs. each). The last stage is a single Arrow II which pushes the payload-a tube containing 3.5 lbs. of instruments-to final speed. The whole assembly looks like a graceless bundle of pipes, weighs...
...saying, "I'm fed up with him. I'm going to get a gun." Ray had won a marksmanship medal at summer camp in 1955-Would he help out? Sure. Young Daniels borrowed a .30-30 Marlin hunting rifle and one cartridge, also picked up a second recruit-Albert Strolis, 15, who agreed to join in the plot because he felt sorry for Marty. The plot was simple: the trio would drive to St. Peter's church cemetery, just opposite the Daniels apartment, and hide behind the wall; when Daniels Sr. turned up, Marty would shoot...
...meeting to recruit volunteers for work in the Children's Unit of the Metropolitan State Hospital at Waltham has been scheduled by Phillips Brooks House for July 8. It will probably be held in the biggest room in the building, and that room, possibly, will be too small...
...Mark VII; Warner) is a stiff salute from TV Star Jack (Dragnet) Webb to the Marine Corps drill instructor. A raucous prowl through the barracks and across the drill fields of Parris Island, the film is not based upon last year's tragic "death march" of a recruit platoon into the Carolina swamps. Made with the blessing and help of the Marine Corps, The D.I. might otherwise almost seem to be anti-Corps propaganda, su ruggedly, almost brutally does it portray the making of a young leatherneck...