Word: scrappers
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...Thayer is forced to step down, the Administration would lose a redoubtable scrapper in the struggle against soaring Pentagon spending. He had challenged the costly proposals of Navy Secretary John Lehman, who argues strenuously for a 600-ship Navy. In Thayer, a tough, blunt former naval aviator and test pilot, Lehman had an adversary of substance. This fall Lehman complained that he was "sick and tired of spending 98% of my time up on the Hill undoing the damage that senior Defense officials are doing to the President's budget." By "senior officials," Lehman meant Thayer, who reportedly responded...
Safire insists that conservatism is not a "troglodytic monolith" and that "fortunately there will be enough internal fighting" to satisfy a scrapper of his style. Just how brutish such fighting can get can be seen in a column by Rowland Evans and Robert Novak that deserves to be studied in journalism schools. Never ruminative like Will, they are columnists who air their opinions in the guise of reporting. The story they were reporting was simple enough: Reagan's new Defense Secretary, Caspar Weinberger, wanted as his deputy Frank Carlucci, who had worked in Government with him before. Right-wingers...
...images of pro basketball in the early '70s became that of a grimacing, snarling, Cowens ripping down a rebound as sweat poured down his face and shook off his hair. The league soon respected Cowens, but as much more than that hated athletic stalwart, the all-hustle, no-talent scrapper who somehow makes...
Watch out folks, the Bounding One, the Bod, the Limey, the Mighty Mite, the Sweet Kraut, the Duck, the Stoneham Scrapper, the Heartbreak Kid, Vaya Con and Smiley...
Ellen "the Heartbreak kid" Gallagher has been running all summer and should be in good shape as should Martha "the Stoneham Scrapper" Clabby and Becky "Smiley" Rogers...