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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greenhorn typists prone to mistakes, Kemplesays typing up a paper was especially frustrating...

Author: By Mary C. Cardinale, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alumni Share Highlights of Past Harvard-Yale Contests | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

While some ROTC participants question the motivations of recruiters' promising top jobs to greenhorn graduates, the jobs are there, although in short supply...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske and Jal D. Mehta, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: ROTC Students Struggle to Reconcile Careers and Military | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...Ford and many others used to turn out regularly. All the classic elements are here: a harshly beautiful Southwestern landscape; the eponymous warrior chieftain (Wes Studi), noble, misused and off the reservation because promises have been broken; an idealistic young officer (Jason Patric) who respects his enemy; and a greenhorn (Matt Damon) who wants to learn more about him; an honorable general (Gene Hackman) and a bloody-minded one (Kevin Tighe). There's even a grizzled scout (Robert Duvall), wise in the ways of the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Masculinity's Last Frontier | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

Provost Jerry R. Green may still have his name, but don't dare call him a greenhorn...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: The First Year as a Provost | 8/6/1993 | See Source »

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