Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following Monday was my first official day on the job. I was to "observe" a seasoned salesman in a typical evenings work. Instead of an experienced salesman, however, I was paired with a 19-year old college dropout from Cambridge in the same boat as me, living at home and wanting to get out. He didn't impress me as being too on the ball, but I went along with what he said, and we drove out to Arlington to look for likely "territory" to work that night...
...college dropout, Bricklin followed his father into the construction business and made his first after-tax million before he was 22. Later he founded Subaru of America Inc. and profitably distributed the tiny Japanese-built autos. He has rounded up $20 million in backing, much of it from Philadelphia Banker John R. Bunting and from businessmen in New Brunswick, Canada, where the new car will be made for export...
...back of her car was Israeli Rabbi Aharon Ron, 47, convicted in the U.S. for conspiring to sell $800,000 in stolen securities. Ron jumped bail to visit his family in Israel while his case was pending appeal. Sarah and he met 18 months ago when she was a dropout. "He has been a constructive force in her life," said Cousins, relating how Ron persuaded Sarah to go back to Columbia. Last week, however, as Ron began a ten-year sentence, Sarah found herself charged with bringing an illegal alien into the country, a crime that carries a maximum sentence...
When their editors first suggested that Washington Post Reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward team up on the Watergate story, neither exactly danced on the city desk. The dissimilarities of the two junior reporters boded a stormy working partnership. To Bernstein, 30, a University of Maryland dropout, Woodward was a smooth Yalie who drove a 1970 Karmann-Ghia and smelled of ivied clubs. To Woodward, also 30, the shaggy Bernstein symbolized one of those unseemly counterculture journalists. But when they accepted the Pulitzer Prize in May 1973 for their pioneering probe of the Watergate scandal, it was obvious that...
...them poor and black, when she did a once-a-week hourly stint as a volunteer teacher. Described to their faces by the principal as "the worst class the school's ever had," her eighth-graders had been virtually abandoned by their regular teacher, a white Peace Corps dropout who thought he would find urban education "more meaningful." When he failed to reach the students, he had become bitter and turned against them. "Some of those teachers could make kids feel dumb without saying anything," another Stalvey son, "Spike," explained to his mother. "And they kind of got across...