Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indeed? White was a so-so student at St. John the Baptist High School, indifferent to sports and too shy to be very popular, but he still qualified as an old-fashioned all-American youngster. He was a devoted reader, especially of military histories, and a Boy Scout. He was a devout Roman Catholic and a volunteer counselor at a camp for handicapped children. He was apparently never in the slightest trouble, not in St. Louis, not during his studious postgraduate year at a Missouri military academy, and not during his ten months in the Army...
...argument by opening to a page at random. She says of Henry James' prose: "His pounce & grip & swing always spring fresh upon me." Ditto with her. The literary portraits alone are worth the price: Huxley, Rebecca West, old Shaw and Yeats, T.S. Eliot ("hard, spry, a glorified boy scout in shorts & yellow shirt. . . settling in with some severity to being a great...
...When I'm out of the game?" Rose mulled over the thought. "You know I never will be. Whatever I am, whatever I become, wherever I've been, wherever I go, it's because of baseball. Coach, scout, manager, broadcaster. I'll be something in the game." And when he looks back, what will be his main satisfactions? "That I was durable, that I was consistent. Oh, and when someone's chasing my records and they ask me to come to the ballpark, I'll be there." But the time is not near...
...forested, hilly 20-acre plot several hundred yards long. We split into two seven-man squads, put on our goggles, tied on red or yellow armbands and entered the woods. Our enemy was a quarter-mile away. Gaines and another man would defend our yellow flag. A single freelance scout would head out by himself to do what damage he could, and four of us would range as an attack squad to capture the opposing red flag. I loped off with the attackers, a middle-aged gun-control advocate in a camouflage shirt, knocking the brush aside with my pistol...
...director of more than 100 films, from silent-era chestnuts like Stella Dallas (1925) to Twelve O'Clock High (1949), The Gunfighter (1950) and Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955); in Toluca Lake, Calif. An early champion of location shooting who flew his own small plane to scout the areas he used, King had an especially sharp eye for spotting undiscovered talent and helped to launch careers for such stars as Tyrone Power, Gary Cooper, Jennifer Jones and Ronald Colman (whose dapper trademark mustache King first drew on the actor with a retouching pencil...