Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Committee was preparing to charge the Commander in Chief for having womanized and lied about it, the Army charged one of its former top officers, retired Major General David Hale, for having allegedly engaged in similar behavior. The charges triggered an investigation of Hale, once the Army's deputy inspector general, who's accused of having conducted improper relationships with the wives of four military officers and then making false statements to investigators. The probe could result in a court-martial...
World War II liberated Tom Watson Jr. from his demons. His success in promoting the use of flight simulators earned him a job as aide and pilot for Major General Follett Bradley, the Army Air Forces' inspector general. Watson flew throughout Asia, Africa and the Pacific, displaying steel nerves and shrewd foresight and planning skills. He was set to fly for United Air Lines after the war when a chance conversation with Bradley changed his course. Informed of Watson's job plans, the general said, "Really? I always thought you'd go back and run the IBM company." A stunned...
Heavy winds blew the fire from the can to the vehicles, a light blue Toyota Corolla and a gray Jeep Cherokee, at about 7:40 p.m., said Cambridge Fire Inspector Ed Fowler...
...Guido's nature to let these threats impede his lifestyle. When Guido's family horse is spray-painted green and covered with anti-Semitic slogans, he uses it to carry Dora away from her Fascist husband-to-be. In another scene, Guido pretends to be chief inspector at a school so he can turn an intended lecture on the superiority of the Aryan race into a discussion of the superiority of his own "Aryan" ears, feet and bellybutton...
...nearly four decades, torched it with his wily intelligence, seduced it with the precision of his plummy voice. He has dwelt inside Hamlet, Romeo, Coriolanus, Richard II and Richard III (in his version, a purring, reptilian gangster), caressed the mood of wistful doom in Chekhov, played Captain Hook and Inspector Hound and, in Bent, a gay man in a Nazi camp. But except for Richard III, which he brilliantly reimagined for film, all these great performances disappeared into the playgoer's memory on closing night. You had to be there; most of you weren...