Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legal career was mainly defending murderers and bandits and frightening district magistrates with his caustic tongue. One magistrate, hearing that Patel was expanding his practice, moved his court to a town out of Patel's reach. In later years Gandhi found in Patel "motherly qualities" that eyes less inspired than the Mahatma's never saw. Today, Patel is coldly pleased when his enemies call him "the Iron Dictator" and "Herr Vallabhbhai." Enemies and friends tell an anecdote of his criminal law days. He had just put his wife in a Bombay hospital, returned to Ahmedabad to argue...
...career well spent, not in search of scoops but in quest of understanding between peoples. In characteristic Lewis fashion, it would not end abruptly. First he would break in a successor. Then, some time in the spring, his spare, well-clad frame and his bass-drum voice would clear out of his small, wildly cluttered office in Washington's National Press Building. After that, he and the leisurely Times didn't quite know...
...resulting Holloway Plan was at least a step in breaking the Annapolis monopoly on production of career officers, though wartime reservists were ready to bet that the Navy's top commands would still go to "trade school" graduates for a long, long time. This week Admiral Holloway moved into Annapolis as its new (and 35th) superintendent, handpicked for the job by Secretary Forrestal...
...universities and a shot at regular, lifetime Navy commissions. Admiral Holloway predicts that for the next few years regular commissions will be split roughly 50-50 between Academy and Holloway Plan graduates. But he still believes that the Annapolis way is a surer-if tougher-way of making a career out of the Navy...
...Parrots. One of these jaunts took him to Samoa in 1890. There he met Robert Louis Stevenson, already nearing the end of his short, tuberculous career. "Stevenson and his wife were perched - like queer birds - mighty queer ones too. Stevenson has cut some of his hair; if he had not, I think he would have been positively alarming. He never seems to rest, but perches like a parrot on every available projection, jumping from one to another and talking incessantly. The parrot was very dirty and ill-clothed, being perhaps caught unawares, and the female was inTrather worse trim than...