Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gulf, a cold front was moving out from Texas, and small-craft warnings were flying along the coast. But the weather was expected to remain well within the "limits of operating conditions" for the four-engined DC-6. Its captain, Ernest A. Springer, was a 44-year-old veteran of airline operation. National had safely flown the tri-city route 9,978 times...
...charging that Jelke was boss of a string of $50-to-$500-a-night call girls, hustled to the washroom. There she held press conferences with newshens, while disgusted reporters stood around outside and city desks assigned more newshens to the "washroom beat." Sniffed the Mirror's Veteran Reporter Jean Adams: "All this shoving and running around in toilets! The dignity and prestige of the Criminal Courts Building is gone...
Before he had been in office a fortnight, Brownell reached out to New York and booted Armand Chankalian out of his job as administrative assistant to U.S. Attorney Myles J. Lane. Chankalian, veteran of seven years in his job, had turned out to be buddy-buddy with New York's fashionable Gangster Thomas ("Three-Finger Brown") Luchese. Snapped Brownell: "There will be no dealings with gangsters or racketeers...
John Moors Cabot, 51, a veteran career diplomat whose last post was Minister to Finland, arrived this week in Caracas, Venezuela to head the U.S. delegation to the Inter-American Economic and Social Council. Careerman Cabot, an affable old Latin American hand who has served in posts outside the hemisphere since 1947, is almost sure to become the new U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American affairs...
Mike is a skinny little boy of six, but he strode confidently into the schoolroom on Chicago's North Shore, past half a hundred adults, and straight to the table up front. With the poise of a veteran performer, Mike perched himself on a stool next to Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs, who asked simply: "Well, Mike, how do you feel?" The boy's answer came in a happy flood: "I have an alarm clock and I dress myself and my mommy loves me all the time...