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John Bulkeley, the Wager’s gunner, a weapons expert and “instinctive leader” whose Bible-inspired narrative gifts would impel him to write an indelible account of events.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2023
Wager’s program was one of several Texas schools or districts to suspend workouts shortly after they started.
From Washington Times • Jun. 22, 2020
“That,” Baker observes, “was Wager’s idea of fun.”
From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2018
Maria Annunziata, an 18-year-old daughter of Wager’s friend from Apex, N.C., who also hid in a bathhouse, said the tornado didn’t seem real.
From Washington Post
This was omitting a disbursement of an annual fifty pounds, of which he need not speak—the sum he had insisted on paying Mrs. Abbott that she might be able to maintain Wager's children.
From The Whirlpool by Gissing, George
