Word: scrambler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brosens is a quietly intense, emotional player, a scrambler who should have an edge over Havens in terms of court position. Havens is equally intense, a hard hitter whose sole weakness may be his mobility...
...Scrambler Phone. He also seemed very exuberant about some of the perquisites that go with his new job. When Gerald Ford dispatched a sleek Air Force 707 to Albany, Ga., to carry Carter on the 26-minute flight to St. Simons Island, the President-elect said boyishly: "That's what I've been waiting for." The aircraft had been used as one of several Air Force One presidential jets; it was the plane aboard which L.B.J. took the oath of office after John Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. Carter roamed the plane in a cardigan sweater...
Coach Sanders characterized Healy as "A very quick young man. He's a scrambler and when he's in there he'll be extented to gamble, causing charging fouls and in general pressuring the other team...
Parker, a scrambler with strong currents of cockney in his speech, started out in the mail room of a London ad agency and within seven years was the head of his own flourishing production company. His specialty was commercials that recalled old movies. One showed a freshly forlorn figure at a railway station, trudging through clouds of locomotive steam, accompanied by the Rachmaninoff theme from Brief Encounter and making his melancholy way home to break open a Birds Eye Frozen Dinner for One. Parker made over 600 commercials in less than six years, hankering all the while to do something...
...White House the President concluded his painful morning chores and flew off as scheduled to resume his meetings with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Jacksonville. But he had other unfinished business as well. He put in a call on the presidential scrambler telephone to Elliot Richardson, U.S. Ambassador to Britain...