Word: thicket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lieut. Sweeney, a stickler for good order and discipline, demanded a crisp salute from enlisted men. Whenever he approached a group of us, we would assign one person in the group to salute lefthanded. A thicket of arms would snap up in the regulation manner, accompanied by an enthusiastic chorus of "Good morning, SIR!" Sometimes, Lieut. Sweeney would pause after he passed us, look puzzled for a moment and then shake his head and move on. But the notion that we could have an impact on his mental health was wishful thinking...
...Wild Thicket...
Like Carnesale, he, too, watches his words and wit, but he does so with a softer, more personable touch, without the ox-like force of a man who can clear administrative hassles like so many acres of tangled prairie. How he will negotiate the vast and wild thicket remains to be seen...
...have proof" that top CIA officials knew the contras were getting money from the L.A. drug connection. "If we were to publish 'Dark Alliance' today," he said, "it would be edited differently. It would state fewer conclusions as certainties and be clearer in explaining why, given the thicket of sometimes conflicting evidence, we drew the conclusions that...
RICHARD NIXON Nixon struggled to get his handicap down to 14, but he was never a fanatic about the rules. Sam Snead recalled once playing with the President when Nixon's ball flew into a thicket. Moments later, Snead saw the ball arc onto the fairway. "I knew he threw it out," wrote Snead, but "what could...