Word: fellows
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...black workers in South Africa who will deal the deathblow to apartheid, but as fellow members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee noted earlier this year, Damon Silvers of the DSA cannot bring himself to support the heroic struggle of the African National Congress (ANC) and instead focuses on the U.S. and South African white ruling class as the vehicle for change. The Spartacus Youth League does not share the illusion that if Harvard divests from companies doing business in South Africa, the rest of the world will follow suit, causing as economic collapse and the subsequent reform of apartheid...
This humanization and popularization may have cost him some prestige among his fellow pediatricians. Despite the many accolades (his colleagues have called him a "giant," a "pioneer," and the Brazelton scale a "landmark") he is still only an associate professor at the Medical School...
...speech on the eve of the Tennessee primary, Hart took the huge risk of reminding voters about something most of his fellow Democrats devoutly wish they would forget: the impression of weakness and ineptitude left by what Hart called "the Carter-Mondale Administration." In particular, he said, "Carter-Mondale actually gave us an America held hostage to the ayatullahs of the world." Mondale replied that Iran had eventually returned all the hostages alive and that during the crisis Hart had failed to suggest any way that their release could have been secured earlier; by midweek Hart rather lamely asserted that...
...becoming President, was preparing for the Potsdam conference and Clifford, a Navy lieutenant, was going to run the naval aide's office during the President's absence. Truman, from his desk in the Oval Office, looked up at the 6-ft. 2-in. Clifford and said, "Big fellow, isn't he?" There was the rock-bottom Truman again - unadorned, direct, kindly, humorous...
Shirley at first reacted to her fame with delight and a little panic: "I felt I needed protection, some grounding." In 1954 she married a fellow actor and would-be producer, Steve Parker. She was 20, he 32. They moved from New York to Los Angeles-a city that Parker detests to this day-and the marriage had troubles almost from the start. "Shirley had this drive, this push," Parker recalls. "She didn't want to be surrounded by a white picket fence. I would be wanting to putter around in the kitchen, and she wanted...