Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Patrick always says "he or she" when women are in earshot. He thinks he ought to say it also when only men are around--to set a good example--but it usually makes him feel like a neon Boy Scout...
...Secaucus, N.J., recruit investigators to dig up damaging information about the Government officials who have been pursuing the charges against the Secretary. Philip R. Manuel, a private detective who claims to have a "loose consulting arrangement" with the White House, is believed by these sources to be a talent scout for the New Jersey firm in its hunt for sleuths...
...weeks ago. The Gurkhas were assigned the task of mopping up pockets of Argentine resistance that were bypassed by Britain's fast-moving Parachute Regiment as it raced toward Goose Green and Port Stanley. Daily, after a ritual unsheathing of their curved kukris, they flew out in Scout helicopters on search and destroy missions in the southern part of East Falkland known ss ASSOCIATION as Lafonia. The British feared that the stragglers, if not found, could be reinforced by a paratroop drop from the Argentine mainland...
...boys in his phys.-ed. class, who was sickened by having to dissect a frog in junior high and ran outside to vomit with the others-"and the others were all girls"- found he could win friends and influence people with his movies. He enrolled in a Boy Scout photography program, where his success made him at 13 one of the youngest Eagle Scouts ever. ("If I hadn't been a Scout," Spielberg cheerfully admits today, "I'd probably have ended up as an ax murderer or a butcher in a Jewish deli.") One high school jock...
Nevertheless, Dover caught the eye of more than one pro scout as he led the Crimson through a sparkling 1971 season which included a second-place Ivy League finish. The Celtics and the Harlem Globetrotters both expressed interest in his jump shot, and he spent one month in training camp with Boston...