Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coast of Maine, flashed a schoolteacher's certificate, got himself a job teaching high-school English, Latin and French. He quickly made friends with the normally reserved down-East folk; they liked his jolly ways, his eagerness to participate in North Haven affairs. He formed a Sea Scout troop, ran Sunday school at the local Baptist church with a gentle, knowing hand. At Christmastime, he rented a post-office box in the name of Santa Claus, gathered up letters from the children, wrote genial replies to each one. bought and distributed gifts for the poor. And then...
...Eagle Scout. A onetime eagle scout, Gerry Murphy was working for an air-taxi outfit in Miami a year ago, when he told friends that he had met an important man: Arturo Espaillat, now New York consul general for the Dominican Republic. Around the first of March Murphy quit his job, saying he had got a high-paying charter proposition. The records show that on March 5 he arranged to rent (for $800) a twin-engined Beechcraft, registered as N 68100, at the Linden, N.J. airport. At a field on nearby Staten Island, he had it fitted to carry extra...
Died. Adlai Stevenson, 92 (born Bear-in-the-Water), a chief since 1895 of the Gros Ventres Indians, who adopted the name of President Grover Cleveland's second Vice President (and grandfather of last year's Democratic presidential candidate) when he became a government scout; in Stanley...
...there was more than enough talent to keep the scouts alert. Scout Steve Owen, representing the Philadelphia Eagles, watched Purdue's Len Dawson loft his soft, leading passes and murmured, "What a ball that man throws." He watched big (265 lbs.) Don Owens of little Mississippi Southern play an abso lutely immovable defensive tackle and groaned to think that Don had already been drafted by Pittsburgh. The South's Coach Paul Brown, of the Cleveland Browns, was frankly amazed at the rugged agility of Florida Guard John Barrow. No pro team had yet drafted Barrow, but there...
Would you please send me some mineral samples as I am a boy scout and need to have some...