Word: fellow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Playing without co-captain and number-one player Diana Edge, number two Jenny Holleran, number four Marianna Chilton, and fellow starters Mary Cist and Grace Sheffield, the Crimson lost only three sets in the entire competition...
...Opinionated and outspoken, he relished the platform that his fame provided and undertook a running battle with McCarthyite elements in Government. They retaliated by stripping him of his passport, summoning him before the House Un-American Activities Committee and trying him for contempt of Congress for refusing to denounce fellow leftists. Miller was catholic in his choice of antagonists, clashing just as fiercely with Communists and hoarding spiteful anecdotes about characters ranging from "Lucky" Luciano to Norman Mailer. Among the more mean-spirited is his sketch of Frank Lloyd Wright, drowsy at 90, commissioned to plan a country house...
...remained. He was not alone. Robert Lowell's closest friends and fellow poets, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman and Theodore Roethke, were also emotionally retarded. The poets, observes Jeffrey Meyers, "felt they should seek suffering rather than happiness . . . All four poets obsessively pursued their private myths, and persuaded each other and the public to believe them." Eventually, an inability to grow damaged the quartet beyond repair...
...easily imagine the rhetoric: "My fellow Americans, we have been through some unsettling moments recently. While the country is sound and the foundations of economic prosperity and stability are solid, we have some pressing problems that must be addressed with new energy and resolve and without partisan acrimony and without regard for personal political + advantage." Instead, Reagan has shouted fragmented and unwise slogans. Advises New York City Financier Felix Rohatyn: "He must not try to run after the markets; he must get ahead of them with credible, long-range plans...
...National Resistance Army by Bantu-speaking southerners and westerners. Alice claimed to be under the command of a holy spirit called lakwena, the Acholi word for messiah, which she adopted as her family name. Her goal: to seize Kampala and install a civilian government, presumably one led by fellow northerners...