Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beating--make that punishing--Dartmouth on Saturday (the final of 35-21 is two touchdowns closer than was the game itself), the Bruins need but defeat a 2-4 Lions squad to assure themselves of a deadlock with Yale...
...There have been some personal things that are very satisfying: the fact that all of our family has gotten so deeply involved. All of the children have done so exceedingly well. It's brought the family closer together. It's shown, I think, what good kids they are-loyal. It's one of those things that has shown that as a family they were brought up in the right atmosphere, so that when the chips were down, we've really been able to hold together. It's made Betty and myself feel very good inside...
...offer to the American people a better choice for our country, and I would feel very bad because somehow what I stood for had not been adequately communicated. I think fundamentally the American people believe the things I've done and the things I've planned are closer to them. So I'd feel sad on a personal basis, but I'd feel much worse from the point of view of what I think is good for the country...
...South Dakota: I would count myself separate from my family. I was one of nine children. My father started out as a shoemaker. He was a very hard man. It was not a loving kind of relationship then, but in the past ten years I could not have been closer to anyone than I was to my father. In his later years he mellowed. Earlier he was very anti-education. He threw me down the stairs of his office when I told him that I wanted to go to college. He thought it was a waste of time, unless...
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, New York City human rights commissioner: I grew up in Washington, D.C. Both of my parents had gone to college-the hard way, but they had gone. I was the oldest of three girls. While we were children the second and third were always closer. They ran together and I was separate. I was also the overachieving older girl. Out of the experience of being an older child who quickly had younger siblings I developed another kind of role -to remain different and to remain critical...