Word: juniors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Rusty left high school, things did not go so well. He quit Palm Beach Junior College in Lake Worth after a year, dropping out with two Cs, one D and four Fs in his seven courses. "It just seemed like the 13th year in high school," Calley says now. He had an ulcer at 19. After he left college, he worked as a hotel bellhop, then a restaurant dishwasher. He became a strikebreaking switchman on the Florida East Coast railroad; soon he was promoted to freight-train conductor and earning as much as $300 a week with overtime...
Many nations soon incorporated that principle into their military codes. One of the last to do so was France, which wrote a new military code only after its junior officers blindly obeyed rebellious generals in Algeria...
...Czechoslovakia. He studied music in the town of Brno, married there (unhappily), suffered through the early death of his two children, and enjoyed no major success as a composer until he was 60. About that time, he fell in love with Kamila Stössl, 38 years his junior and the wife of an antique dealer. The affair was apparently platonic; nonetheless, it brought the composer an astonishingly productive second youth. From the time of his meeting with Kamila, his music surged with an energy and abundance of imagination barely suggested by his earler work...
...Twelve penalties, six on each squad, were called in the final 13 minutes, and when McManama knocked Harvard's final goal past Eberly at 11:51, there were two Huskies in the penalty box. Joe Cavanagh and Steve Owen, members of Harvard's junior line, were sent off three minutes later. and the Crimson barely surrived their loss. plus inexcusably careless defensive play, to preserve the 6-3 victory...
Oddly enough. the entire controversy has developed about a junior who averaged only three points a game last year and spent a significant amount of time on the bench. Yale insisted on his right to play and agreed to risk the consequences despite his lackluster performance...