Word: veterans
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...Republic saw it in 1942, Washington was a "combination of Moscow . . . Paris . . . Wichita . . . and Hell." In this rich anecdotal history, David Brinkley spends much of his time in the precincts of purgatory. The veteran commentator was a young reporter when the capital began to mobilize. "Was it conceivable," he wondered, "that the leadership of the Western world in wartime could fall to a city only a few generations out of the mud? A city that still boasted 15,000 privies...
...performance, given by a wily veteran of guerrilla warfare, was a tactical masterpiece. Arriving in Washington last week, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir faced heavy pressure from the Reagan Administration to accept a U.S. proposal for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, a plan whose conditions he had publicly reviled at home. Engaging in a shrewd game of stalling and sliding, Shamir, who got his start as a leader in the Jewish underground in pre-1948 Palestine, managed to avoid an open confrontation with his U.S. allies: he neither formally rejected their proposal nor moved an inch closer...
...past, most of the practice time was spent on learning the basics. Ball skills and shooting were top priority. But, this year the Crimson has lost only one starter and has a good core of veteran players...
Butt adds that the veteran leadership of this year's crew has made a difference in the quality of preseason workouts. "The training has been a little more advanced," says the former Rutgers Coach...
Despite Kingston's absence, the Crimson still has plenty of leadership from Co-Captains Tierney and Mike Newhouse, former Co-Captains Scott Roberts and Lanny Thorndike, and several other veteran players...