Word: career
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everyone overlooked the fact that he was a career .239 hitter. And only a few months after the Astros signed him to a million-dollar deal, they dropped him like a lead weight...
Harvard Coach Mike Horn will wrap up his career as varsity sailing coach this week when he leads the Radcliffe sailing team into the Women's North American Intercollegiate Championships. Horn steps down after 16 years as varsity sailing coach...
...after his suicide attempt in February, told the New York Times of the frustrations he felt as National Security Adviser: "Shultz and Cap Weinberger and Don Regan and the Vice President had built up businesses and made great successes of themselves. I haven't done that. I had a career in the bureaucracy. I didn't really quite qualify. It didn't do any good to know a lot about arms control if nobody listened...
...measure, it was an extraordinary moment. Accused War Criminal Klaus Barbie, known as the "Butcher of Lyons," was calmly answering as presiding Judge Andre Cerdini probed his career with the Nazi SS, his work for U.S. Army Intelligence after the war, his flight to South America in 1951 and, finally, his 1983 expulsion from Bolivia to stand trial in France. Unexpectedly, Barbie asked Cerdini for permission to read a statement. "I am being held here illegally," said the defendant without emotion, referring to his oft-repeated contention that he was unlawfully expelled from Bolivia. "I am the victim...
...career began to fade. Though she had proved herself a capable actress, she was given few parts. She began to look tired, and a line from Fire Down Below (1957) -- "Armies have marched over me" -- seemed sadly appropriate. By the early '80s, Alzheimer's disease was diagnosed, and Yasmin, who has been active in raising funds for Alzheimer's research, was appointed her conservator. Hayworth was perhaps the best judge of her life. "I haven't had everything from life," she once remarked. "I've had too much...