Word: careering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still has the bearing (and the crew haircut) of a Yale athlete*(class of '04), still thoughtfully putts golf balls around his office when mulling over a problem. Twice married and the father of nine children (the oldest, 40, the youngest, two), he has had a distinguished career as a lawyer and a militant Republican. His bill requiring labor unions to account publicly for their funds was the country's first to be approved by voters (in a state referendum last year...
...eldest of nine children of poor Italian immigrants, John Deferrari was forced to quit school to help support his family. In Boston, whose North End slums were all that he knew, young John took up father Giovanni's career. A fruit basket on his arm, he started peddling apples and oranges in the State Street financial district...
...disease attacks horses' spleens, kidneys and livers. Veterinarians say there are likely to be relapses years after apparent recovery, and most trainers believe that it ends a horse's racing career even if he survives. There is no known cure...
Clive deserted the Church of Ireland (affiliated with the Anglican Church) for atheism. After a brief World War I career as a 2nd lieutenant in France, where he was wounded in the back by a British shell that fell short, Lewis graduated from Oxford with honors, tried a few years as a starveling poet, and in 1925 happily accepted his present post...
Richard Sherman is a daring man who thinks he knows what goes on in a woman's head. He has written The Bright Promise in the first person feminine-as a wife's-eye view of an able, unstable husband whose career fluctuates between life on the dole and the brilliant editorship of a picture magazine. But despite the author's daring viewpoint, readers are not likely to know Amy Hardin Ellery any better than other heroines of women's magazine fiction...