Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Veteran Tony Patton returned to defense for the first time this year, turning in a vigorous game of body-checking as well as scoring an assist on Captain Normie Wood's tie breaking goal in the second period. His checking, together with that of Jeff Coolidge and Ed Mrkonich, who had two assists, had the Husky attack definitely body-contact shy by the end of the evening...
When Parysko's body was found, a party of veteran climbers and members of the Mt. Washington Volunteer Ski Patrol stationed nearby began the search for Longenecker, originally believed to have escaped the avalanche...
According to veteran climbers, Parysko died ironically. After miraculously escaping the avalanche which buried the students' igloo. Parysko, lightly-clad, bypassed numerous places where he could have been saved. He was found only 20 yards away from a cabin occupied by eight University students on a skiing trip...
Sharp fighting did break out, however, when the French combined this landing with an overland attack towards the new beachhead, from the general direction of Saigon. The objective: to winkle the Communists out of the.hills, back down to the French on the coast. The veteran French battalion from Korea moved expertly through the limestone hills, followed by a green, Vietnamese nationalist division, 10,000 strong. They surprised a Communist encampment and inflicted considerable losses. Loyal mountain tribesmen in loincloths attacked a Communist post with their coup coup knives and captured a Communist flag...
...Public Stench." Nieman, a veteran newsman, had bought the newborn Journal in 1882, when it was barely 22 days old (the Journal considers Nieman its "founder"). Nieman was disgusted with the timidity of the city's half-dozen dailies, which he thought were more interested in pleasing businessmen and politicians than in covering the news. He set the Journal on a different course with his dictum: "Never care about classes, but about people. Get all of the information [;you can] about matters of importance to the public, giving them all sides of the question." When more than 70 people...