Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feller?" asked the incredulous agent. "I said, no, I can't act." To which Willson replied: "Good. I think I can do something for you. Sit down." Willson transformed Roy Fitzgerald into Rock Hudson and secured him an apprenticeship in one of the biggest film factories, Universal Pictures. Fighter Squadron (1948) was his first film. During the next six years, 25 others followed, like The Iron Man and Air Cadet. The studio was his school. By the time his first big picture, The Magnificent Obsession, came along in 1954, he was able to establish his film personality: steady, likable...
Perot didn't bother with Carter. He sent a squadron of company employees led by a former colonel over to Iran. One of the men, an Iranian employee, incited a mob to storm the prison. They successfully freed all 13,000 prisoners, making it the largest jailbreak in history...
Most of the participants in the conference, which was held for the first time last year, are from the Department of Defense, in positions ranging from a submarine squadron trainer to the chief of atmospheric prediction in the Air Force. All of the officials are either military colonels or hold equivalent civilian rank...
...shooting had ended. Baker, his orders home tucked in his tunic, took a repaired Spad up for a test flight. It crashed, and "the finest damn flier in the air," as his fellow aviators called him, entered the record books for the final time: the last man in his squadron to be killed...
Less distinct, and less familiar, is the squadron of players who mostly watched this year. The heaviest burden is on them, and on McLaughlin, who says he will need help from the Harvard administration to bring the program up to its potential...