Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evening, and ultimately the winner, is John Ocacio, a former Arthur Murray instructor and a veteran of the disco era who once appeared on American Bandstand. Tonight he's wearing combat attire and camouflage makeup for a monologue about being a 19-year-old in Viet Nam. His act consists of standing with his rifle in a bayonet-thrust position and making robot-like movements, ratchetting across the stage on the stuttered word "nuh-nuh-nuh- nineteen." On a bit about post-traumatic stress disorder the movements go haywire. He throws a grenade. He takes enemy fire...
This season UNH has slipped somewhat, and Harvard's team is a veteran one. If anything, the final score last night should have been closer...
...Getman didn't hang around long enough to become a veteran. He put in a couple of years as an assistant at Indiana before deciding to play rookie once again...
...afford to give up the veteran? Where will he hit in the lineup? Will he break the rotation, or will we use him in the bullpen? Will that rookie be as good as he's supposed...
...stops to rub his shoulder. A racial egalitarian in his own country and the veteran of African wars, he was shot earlier this year in an incident of racial violence while camping near Albuquerque. He shrugs. "I once said I'd shoot every bloody cow and rancher I came across. I thought unless we got rid of them, the whole world would become desert. But that kind of solution was wrong and counterproductive. Simplicity is the only thing I defend. I'd like to live with just a tin plate, a knife and a rifle in the African bush . . . knowing...