Word: ret
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Among the early reformers were two of Spinney's former mentors in the Pentagon bureaucracy, Air Force Colonel (Ret.) John Boyd and Research Scientist Pierre Sprey. It was the lobbying of Boyd and Sprey for simpler, more maneuverable weapons that made possible the development in the early 1970s of the F-16 fighter jet, an effective and affordable complement to the expensive...
Kemp Tolley Rear Admiral, U.S.N. (ret.) Monkton...
Captain, U.S.N. (ret...
...Woolworth's, boasting enough mark-down tags to make it clear this is not the next Rubik's Cube, are a pile of half-sized plastic swivel chairs. On each there's a label, like the ones men wear at conventions that say "Hi! I'm Bob, General Consolidated (ret.)" Only these say "Hi! I'm a swivel chair." Truth in advertising and all that...
Without resentment, he watches a generation of writers imitate his style and similes. Without vanity, he tries to fer ret out the reasons for his own success: "There are better plotters than I am, and much better idea men, but it doesn't seem to matter. When they write the scene, there is no magic...