Word: diarist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Other famous men have been martyrs to gall bladders or kidney stones. Among them: Samuel Pepys, the 17th-century English diarist who suffered most of his life from kidney and bladder stones, finally died of them; Napoleon Bonaparte, who was plagued by agonizing gallstone colic from the age of 30 until his death...
...course, John Adams ultimately gave up his dream of Orlinda, married the spirited Abigail Smith and sired John Quincy Adams, a doughty diarist and the sixth President...
Speaking to an audience of 75 in the Kirkland House Junior common Room on "Guerrilla War and the Conspiratorial Theory of History". Tito's diarist explained that an ideology of change fostered among the intellectuals will not sustain a revolutionary movement without the backing of a mass movement. On the other hand, he said, a spontaneous uprising will not be successful without its goal founded in an ideology...
Classicist, philosopher, novelist, essayist, memoirist, journalist, diarist (170-odd volumes of notebooks repose in Houghton Library)--and so much more. Above all he strove to be a 20th-century Periclean Hellene; and his whole life was indeed a paragon of the ancient Greek arete...
Official forbearance eventually gave way under the pressure of the press. Jordanian troops escorting what was soon dubbed "the papalcade" eventually resorted to muscle, swagger sticks and gun butts to keep order in the unholy mess. Cesidio Lolli, sedate papal diarist for L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican daily, lost his temper after a manhandling by Arab Legionnaires. "You may be the soldiers of Herod," he snapped, "but please remember that I am not a Christian infant...