Word: sailors
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...SAILOR...
...want the senior Senator's scalp. His counterattack is to twit Miller for accepting his help two years ago and to cast his own deviations from conservative orthodoxy as principled ones. "It is the way I have lived my life," Warner says. But his advertising betrays his nervousness. A sailor in World War II and a Marine officer in Korea, he is airing an ad that accuses Miller of having "intentionally avoided military service" during Vietnam. (Miller married while in college and then had student deferments...
...dedicated sailor says that it was the Sailing Team's well organized, impressive recruiting effort which brought him to Harvard...
...March 1994, when his predecessor, Admiral Frank Kelso II, had to retire early in response to criticism of his handling of the 1991 Tailhook sex-harassment episode. As the first enlisted man ever to rise to the Navy's top spot, Boorda was known, and widely liked, as a "sailor's sailor," and he set about restoring ethical standards and pride to the troubled service branch...
...screen for me," said Duane Bushey, who worked with Boorda from 1988 to '92 as the Navy's master chief petty officer. "I think it would be humiliating for him. But even if it came out that he really didn't deserve them, I think the average sailor would say, 'Yeah, but look at what the guy is doing for us.'" Now all they can do is look back at what...