Word: individualist
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...most of the night watchmen find-time for personal relaxation while they sit in their offices, their ears attuned for phone calls and sounds of misbehavior. Many of them snatch glances at their favorite magazines, when no one is looking. Dugald Livingston of the Chemistry Laboratories, however, is an individualist. Any burglar second-storying his way into Mallinokrodt on the nights when Livingstond is on duty would be greeted with the errie sound of clarinet figures echoling up and down the shadowed stairways...
...Bracken Lee, Republican governor of Utah, is a blunt, stubborn individualist with a passion for economy. He has cut off state aid to such projects as the Utah Symphony Orchestra, and has slashed the state's social-security program. He was the only governor in the nation who refused to declare a United Nations Day. He has consistently fought any increase in taxes, no matter what the need might be. But of all the stands that Lee has taken, none has stirred such storms as his atti tude towards Utah's public schools...
This is the first Republican Christmas in twenty years. Does that mean it will be a Christmas of hard work, of spoils to the rugged individualist and nothing for the security-seeker? Christmas has traditionally been a season for the extension of largesse to the grasshopper who didn't store up the summer crops as well as the ant who did, a season of good will to all, Democrats and Republicans alike. Everyone has been able to share in Christmas: the carol-singers, the people who lovingly fendle Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" as well as those who parody...
...Robert Smith on an "agreement for purchase" of the paper. To meet the terms of the contract, Sackett must, among other provisions, pay $580,000 by the end of this year. Publisher Sackett, 51, may have trouble meeting the payments since even his friends regard him as an eccentric individualist who alternates between periods of money-making journalism and pie-in-the-sky newspaper deals. Last week, in the wake of his latest deal, the Seattle law firm that has represented him for 13 years resigned...
Spiers, a truculent individualist, refused. He hired lawyers and appealed. He took Eva-in slacks-to court with him. The Appeals Committee agreed that "the slacks are altogether seemly"; they criticized the school uniform system ("There is altogether too much uniformity"); they revoked Spiers' fine...