Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...threat in a face that can mask its intentions -- even as his actions inspire trust. He could be a husband, a lover, a chief of state. And now Costner is poised to tote the ten commandments of frontier heroism into an anxious new decade. He is the hard- riding scout bearing the movies' message of what America thinks it was and hopes it can be again...
Hoffman pleaded guilty and served time on lesser charges. Though dismayed by the apolitical younger generation -- "Never trust anyone under 30," he declared -- he never stopped protesting. It was Timothy Leary, the advance scout of the LSD generation, who eulogized Hoffman most deftly last week. "An American legend," Leary called him. "Right up there in the hall of fame with rebel Huck Finn, rowdy Babe Ruth and crazy Lenny Bruce...
Luck, hard work, some powerful connections and a willingness to gamble. That's how Nunn has risen so far so fast. The eggs aside, Nunn breezed through Perry High, Georgia Tech and Emory University law school. He was an Eagle Scout and a star forward who led Perry's high school basketball team to the 1956 state championship. "We were behind by 5 points at the half," recalls Ed Beckham, a Perry oil distributor. "Our coach was one of the winningest in the nation, but it was Sam who gave us the half-time pep talk...
...Raiders stave off a third-period Harvard comeback, and Craig Woodcroft earns his Eagle Scout badge as he tallies with only 21 seconds left in OT to give Colgate...
...Raiders stave off a third-period Harvard comeback, and Craig Woodcroft earns his Eagle Scout badge as he tallies with only 21 seconds left in OT to give Colgate...