Word: comers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bearded and brash, Hinds, 47, is a comer from way back. At ten he was sent to a reformatory as a truant. A varsity boxer at the University of Wisconsin, he later taught art. In 1958 he began selling life insurance in Madison, Wis.; fifteen years later, he had sold $20 million in term policies-the highest tally in the land...
...hundred days in jail. He soon moved to Rome to work in the party's headquarters there and became a protégé of Togliatti. By the age of 23, Berlinguer had won a seat on the party's central committee and been tabbed as a comer; after that, he gradually worked his way to the top until he succeeded Togliatti's successor, the aging and ill Luigi Longo, in 1972. Unlike Togliatti, who lived openly with a mistress, Berlinguer fits the classic Italian middle-class image of a good family man with three children whom...
...Sally's potential is unlimited," first-year Cliffe coach Corey Wynn '40 commented after Roberts recently demolished a Smith College opponent, 6-0, 6-0. "She strikes me as being a natural player, a real comer. Her pace, power, and timing are amazing for a woman who isn't really that big," Wynn added...
Marked as a comer during Watergate hearings but has done little since ... A good compromise bet to woo the South and appease the liberals, and popular through the Middle West besides ... Sturdy, vigorous, everybody's second choice ... Biggest drawback: his nomination could cost the G.O.P. a precious Senate seat...
...assertive stance for black children. In the past, aggressive black males were likely to be in danger of being beaten or arrested; as a result, some parents tried to crush normal aggressive behavior in their children when they were very young. Today, there is another worry. Explain Poussaint and Comer: "We blacks have a concern about the threat of training or 'brainwashing' black children to be passive or nonaggressive. We fear this has or can lead to acceptance of and adjustment to an unjust society." Blacks must always stand up for their rights, they believe, especially before authority...