Word: veteran
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...also a fact that Holloway's most loyal admirers are those who have served him longest or worked with him most closely. Reason: Holloway, veteran of 40 able and often illustrious years in the Navy, is first, last and all the time a thoroughgoing Navy...
Swept to victory with Edmondson was many another relative newcomer, such as George Nigh, 31-year-old high school teacher and state representative who is running for lieutenant governor. Washed out along with oldtimers from the statehouse were veteran legislators, judges and 15 county sheriffs. Since Democratic nominations are as good as election in Oklahoma, Edmondson (a mild Scotch-and-water man himself) and his friends set to organizing the new administration, which takes over Jan. 1. High on their list of things to do: hold the repeal vote...
Convinced, the 18-member Joint Committee unanimously voted out a $145 million authorization for a third plutonium reactor, to be built near the 14-year-old veteran at Hanford. Last week, in the teeth of President Eisenhower's letter declaring that "there can be no justifiable basis to proceed" until the Administration decides that the third reactor is needed, both the House and the Senate lopsidedly approved the Joint Committee's bill...
...Born." Next day, in the suburbs of Baghdad, the rebels caught Premier Nuri asSaid, accompanied by two women, and himself veiled and disguised as a woman. The old man, veteran of dozens of battles and revolutionary skirmishes, fired on an Iraqi air force sergeant who seemed to recognize him. Then, according to the former chef of the royal household, who escaped to Ankara with the story, Nuri was stripped of his disguise, impaled alive, and left on public view in the rotting sunlight...
...result is that the Giants lead the league in scoring runs. But their problem is pitching. Behind Veteran Lefthander Johnny Antonelli (10-7) there is an undistinguished troupe: in-and-out Al Worthington (8-5), flashy but unsteady Mike McCormick (7-1), and Junkballer Stu Miller, whose slow stuff is so slow that Announcer Russ Hodges once cracked: "There's one that almost turned around and went back." A pennant-contender club needs three solid starters, and the missing man is Righthander Ruben Gomez, a 15-game winner last year who has been blasted consistently in recent starts...