Word: strayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the 49th arrived last fall, the base had just been reactivated after two years of falling from seed into a shambles. The barracks were decrepit. Stray cows and pigs roamed the premises. The food was like nothing mother ever cooked. At first, there were not enough blankets, boots or underwear to go around. Worst of all to the men of the 49th, after the Berlin crisis seemed to ease, there appeared little reason for their being in uniform. Major General Harley B. West, the division commander, recognized the problem. Said he: "Fort Polk, La., is a hell...
Under terms of the 1955 peace treaty with Russia and the Western powers which gave it independence, Austria cannot stray far from the neutral path. But down deep, the Austrians hanker for closer Western ties. As Chancellor Gorbach pointed out on a London trip a fortnight ago: "Our neutrality is simply a question of our having undertaken not to join any military alliance and not to allow foreign troops on Austrian territory. It goes without saying that we feel ourselves to be a part of the Western world." As such, the Austrians are eager to have "an economic connection" with...
...blown about the stage like vagrant autumn leaves, but Harold Lang and Sheree North (Bogen's folly) make a scorching sex rite out of What's In It for Me? As Miss Marmel-stein. a secretary with absolutely no sex appeal. Barbra Streisand trips the show into stray laughs. For the rest. Wholesale is as quiet as Seventh Avenue on Yom Kippur...
...evening final of the individual medley, before a scattered gathering of fellow competitors and a few stray ushers, Pringle took the lead at the first turn of his opening butterfly stint. On the backstroke lap, the versatile junior opened up a body-length lead over Dartmouth's Terry Bentley, a butterfly specialist, who was racing on Pringle's right...
That ended the scoring, but the fun was just beginning. Gene Kinasewich, an enduring target for stray elbows and sticks all season long, wasn't having any Saturday evening, thank you. He barged around aggressively early in the contest checking one Colby man through the boards, but his (and everyone's) big moment came at 16:39 of the final period...