Word: excels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surface message, the "never-say-die" competitiveness that pulls Teddy through hard times and tough fights, literally assaults the audience. Alden litters the play with examples of Roosevelt's "bully-ness". A frail, asthmatic child painfully builds his body into the epitome of physical fitness and manages to excel athletically at, of all places, Harvard College (from which Roosevelt graduated in 1880, and which he describes in the play as teeming with "intensely languid" people). Stricken with grief at the age of 26 when both his mother and his first wife die on the same day, Roosevelt abandons a budding...
...common consent, the two best newspapers in America are the New York Times (daily circulation: 803,123) and the Washington Post (530,031) -and they far excel the rest. Most Americans seldom see them, but both are thoroughly read by those on the air or in print who bring others the national news Now the nation's best newspaper has just restyled itself as the New New York Times; and when so pivotal an institution changes, something important is being said about American journalism. It is as if a dignified old lady, much revered in her own stately...
...delays in Gilmore's case may transfer to Robert Excel White the lugubrious distinction of becoming the first person executed in the U.S. in nearly a decade. Recently convicted of a triple murder during a shooting spree in Texas, he requested and got an early execution date: Dec. 10. He too wants to die, and because the Texas capital-punishment statute was one of three specifically upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court last July, there are few court maneuvers open to any legal opponents of the death penalty. White may pursue his execution even more splashily than Gilmore...
...three law students expressed confidence in their futures. Susan Estrich, a third-year Law student, said when she entered Harvard, a professor told her that "women just don't excel here." Last spring, Estrich was named the first woman editor in chief of the Harvard Law Review...
Susan Ford, 19, does not like-or excel in-public speaking, and can be pouty about campaigning, but she is fond of parades. So, smiling like a homecoming queen, Susan is dispatched to march down Main Streets at the first roll of a drum. Mike Ford, 26, married and a divinity student at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass., last week announced that he had decided to get involved in the campaign because it was his Christian duty to do so. Opening the Ford headquarters in Augusta, Me., Mike graciously dismissed the criticism of Carter's lust...