Word: battler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lavished material goods on them, but otherwise paid scarcely any attention to them; in fact he rarely slept at home, preferring the laboratory. His first wife died grossly overweight; his second once said their marriage had been "no great love." The Hollywood picture of Edison as a dedicated battler for the good of humanity could hardly be more wrong. Much as his inventions did benefit humanity, Edison's object was to make money, as much as he could. His first patent was on a device for automatically and speedily recording votes in Congress and state legislatures; but because such...
DIED. John Cardinal Wright, 70, gregarious supervisor of the Roman Catholic Church's 410,000 priests since 1969; of polymyositis; in Cambridge, Mass. As Bishop of Pittsburgh (1959-69), the Boston-born Wright was a fierce battler against racial discrimination, an opponent of the Viet Nam War and an outspoken theological conservative, opposing the ordination of women. He was also an authority on Joan of Arc. Even as the highest ranking American in the Vatican Curia, he never forgot his roots, dining nearly every Saturday on Boston baked beans...
Along with Meyers at the forward spot will be sophomore Wendy Carle. An aggressive, hard-nosed battler, Carle gave the women needed strength last year and should help the inside game this year. Lori Christensen, another scrappy insider, will give the women plenty of power off the bench...
Steinbrenner leads a syndicate of 19, which purchased a wreckage of a Yankee franchise from CBS in 1973. He eased out Manager Ralph Houk, hired and fired Bill Virdon, purchased perhaps $7.5 million worth of baseball talent and brought in Billy Martin, who had been a nonconforming battler on the conformist Yankees...
...coaches can always find solace in hopes for the future. Lee had special praise for D'agostino, a hard-nosed battler whose one loss came against Yale in a last-ditch struggle for a pin. And D'agostino is only a junior, while sophomore Beling, a fall footballer, looks like the heavyweight of the future. Lee expects him to be unbeatable after he finds the experience to go with his "outstanding athletic ability...