Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said that ROTC is self-defeating because, in anything, ROTC programs distract students from more useful study in regular Arts and Sciences courses. Because of their rank and because of time wasted on ROTC courses of little value, ROTC graduates, Hester wrote this summer, often prove more difficult to train in complex technical skills than do regular college graduates new to the military...
...THINK I might go back down there to visit but I wouldn't go back down there to live. For one thing I've grown out of it. I'm trying to get into nursing right now. Well, I have put in at the hospital and you train and at the same time you get paid. I wouldn't usher then, 'cause I wouldn't know if they'd want me day or night. A practical nurse, that's what I want...
...Dancing follows the getaway trail of a band of train robbers in the Old West, led by Burt Reynolds, who plays a taciturn and tough ex-Army Captain. In the midst of its carefully planned heist, his gang is forced to include Sarah Miles in the escape. Miles portrays a rich young runaway wife, who improbably decides to board the train at the spot where Reynolds' men dynamite the tracks...
When Nixon ran against Pat Brown for Governor of California in 1962, Tuck popped up everywhere like a bad sprite. Nixon would no sooner throw him off the campaign train than he would sneak back on again. At a rally in Los Angeles' Chinatown, Tuck gave a banner to some children, who waved it aloft when Nixon appeared. "Let's have a picture," the candidate suggested. At that point, some of the Chinese happened to read the inscription, WHAT ABOUT THE HUGHES LOAN?-a reference to the $205,000 that Howard Hughes had lent Nixon's brother...
...havoc by spreading phony stories about rival candidates and setting one against another-a tactic not too far removed from some of Segretti's machinations. Once Barry Goldwater was nominated, he replaced Nixon as Tuck's chief victim. The prankster smuggled a comely girl onto the Goldwater train; every six hours until she was caught, she put out a newsletter ridiculing the campaign. Two years later, Tuck turned serious about politics-or so it seemed. He ran for the California state senate. He professed to be mortally afraid that Nixon would endorse him. In fact, Nixon sent...