Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vejk revisited seems a timely project, especially since it introduces the book's creator, who uncannily resembles his own hero. Jaroslav Hašek's father died of drink in 1896 when the boy was 13. Hasek became a dropout, vagabond, drunk and professed anarchist. He was constantly in trouble and often in jail. Like Švejk, too, he was less political than impudent...
Freelandia's founder, is 30-year-old Kenneth Moss, a resurrected middle-class kid from Long Island and two-time dropout at Syracuse U. And self-made millionaire at age 26. Moss bought stocks in disposable thermometers after he left Syracuse and rode the crest of one of the wildest, wealthiest stock market waves in history...
...right. Only one challenger had earned a victory (Spassky won 32 games and granted eight draws) when the marathon drew to a close after almost five hours. Charles Madigan, 21, an intense college dropout, forced Spassky to concede after 51 moves. Then, in a statement that sounded like Bobby Fischer at his brashest, Madigan said: "I didn't play very well...
Died. Charles Evans Whittaker, 72, a former Supreme Court Justice; of a ruptured aorta; in Kansas City, Mo. A high school dropout who returned to school to study law, Whittaker rose to prominence as a Missouri trial lawyer and was appointed to the high court by Eisenhower in 1957. A judicial conservative, Whittaker consistently held claims of individual liberty to be outweighed by the needs of government, cast the deciding vote in 40 cases that ruled against an extension of civil rights and upheld actions against the Communist Party and alleged members. He resigned from the court...
...attack and Canada's senior quarterback Ron Lancaster, or the Edmonton Eskimos, a tough defensive team featuring the league's top receiver. For the East it will be the veteran Ottawa Rough Riders banking on a terrorizing defensive front four, or the Montreal Alouettes, led by N.F.L. Dropout George Mira. Whichever two survive the divisional finals, the style of play promises to be untamed...