Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Lieut. Verne Goodwin, 30, was running a Buick agency at Las Cruces, N. Mex. when he was recalled to active duty as a pilot in the Air Force. A World War II veteran whose wife was expecting a child, he applied almost immediately for a ground job. He said that he had become afraid of flying. The Air Force turned down his request. Last December, when he was ordered to fly to England as copilot of a C124 cargo plane, Goodwin refused to obey. Last week at Biggs Air Force Base, Texas, a court-martial sentenced...
Sporting a 3 and 1 record, the freshman lacrosse team will meet its toughest competition to date when it faces a veteran Exeter team today at 3 p.m. on the lacrosse field. Exeter has had several injuries which have weakened its attack, but have two experienced defensemen that should give the Yardlings trouble...
...expect it to be very close," says Love. "Tech has a far better crew than at this same time last year because it has a veteran stroke...
McInnis was fall of praise yesterday for Maesaka's performance at West Point. "He took over that infield like a veteran," he said, "and that's what made the difference for us." The stocky Hawaiian, who has recovered from the broken ankle he suffered last season with the freshmen, handled four chances in the field flawlesly and contributed a single and a double to the attack, driving in two runs...
...only had grass over the rails but, thanks to the spring floods, water as well." Headquarters was a rented office in Peoria's dingy Union Station; customers were practically nonexistent. Equipment was run down and morale was low. Russ Coulter, a Colby College graduate and a veteran railroader from the St. Louis-San Francisco ("Frisco") Railway Co., perked things up. Soon firemen were out on the tracks, voluntarily working at laborers' wages to put the roadbed in shape...