Word: career
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Known for his generally conciliatory approach in dealing with the legislature since he returned to office in 1983, supporters say he is now using the toughest language of his career. In his speech, he referred to critics as "chronic complainers" and "gloom and doomers...
THERE must be other Harvard seniors out there who were physically revolted by the recent Career Forum at Memorial Hall a few weeks...
Both had been recruited. Landau as the national high school career record-holder for scoring, had played since seventh grade. Cutone began playing in 10th grade...
...contradiction. Baker was cheerfully promiscuous, yet loyal in a way to a few paternalistic men who meant more to her than a year of one-night stands. Childless herself, she eventually adopted twelve infants of different races, accumulating a rambunctious family she called the "Rainbow Tribe." Baker built her career in Europe, partly to escape the humiliations of a racist America; yet her proudest moment was sharing a podium with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1963 civil rights march on Washington...
Three survivors carry the burden of Atkinson's narrative. Tom Carhart is a gung-ho lieutenant whose career is derailed by accidents and disfigured by a war he can neither take nor leave. Jack Wheeler is an idealistic Army brat who loses his military faith in the trenches. Postwar, both men have turbulent domestic lives; both resign their commissions, as do nearly 25% of their class. Both are obsessed by the idea of a Viet Nam memorial in Washington. But Wheeler favors the final design; Carhart, a lifelong iconoclast, censures the "black gash of shame and sorrow, hacked into...