Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year, at the height of his career, Manolete was drawn into a passionate squabble. Other Spanish bullfighters, jealous of the vast amounts of money Manolete made in Mexico, wanted to keep Mexican bullfighters from appearing in Spain. A young, rising matador, Luis Miguel Dominguin, led the Spanish closed-shop faction. Once he threatened to run Manolete out of the ring...
...Threshold. When the speeches began, the nonpartisan bonds slipped a bit, and there were sounds very like a muffled boom. Cried Massachusetts' Governor Robert Bradford, who returned from a vacation in Maine for the celebration: "He's only on the threshold of an even greater career." Massachusetts' Senator Leverett Saltonstall, a leading candidate for "favorite son" himself, declared: "If he wants more, the people of Massachusetts will be with...
...Less than a third of U.S. families say grace at meals. Seven out of ten prefer a dog to a cat as a family pet and only one in 20 keeps a canary. Almost no parents want their sons to go into politics; they are certain that a political career leads to graft and crookedness...
...Fred Perry had plenty of it; Tilden, the prissy virtuoso, had it to an insolent degree. It is the same quality that enabled Babe Ruth to point to the right-field bleachers at Wrigley Field during one World Series game and slam the most famed home run of his career...
...shorts by his swimming pool, sipping a tall drink which he hated to see either full or empty, and talking to a shaggy English sheep dog as if he half expected the dog to answer. To his visitor, Hosford related some of the facts of his fabulous career...