Word: joiners
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...player from a black college to make it to the National Football League. Tank returned to the rural school of 4,000 in north Louisiana and helped Willie Davis get to the N.F.L. Davis came back and helped Ernie Ladd and Buck Buchanan. Rosey Taylor helped Willie Brown. Charlie Joiner helped Sammie White. Now White has been coming back to help a receiver named Trumaine Johnson, who should be a No. 1 draft choice next year and the 206th Grambling Tiger to play professional football...
When Giorgio Morandi died at the age of 73 in 1964, he was, from the view of modern art that revolves around "movements" and historical groupings, a kind of seraphic misfit. He was not a joiner moved nowhere, did a little teaching, and spent most of the last 45 years of his life in a slightly musty, secluded flat in Bologna, the red-brick provincial city whose reluctant cultural ornament he had become. In all his life he stepped out of Italy only to cross the border for a few brief trips into nearby parts of Switzerland. Il Monaco...
Pittsburgh has Bradshaw to Bradshaw to Swann and San Diego has Fouts to Joiner, and now South House has Auerti to Chaney. This formidable passing combination accounted for one touchdown and over 100 yards as South beat a spunky Leverett squad 20-3 yesterday to raise its record...
...attends Colorado College; and Jay, 19, is a sophomore at Stanford. After a brief fling at running her own law firm in a Phoenix suburb, where she handled everything from leases to drunken driving cases, she spent five years as a full-time housewife. She was a typical joiner: president of the Junior League, adviser to the Salvation Army, auxiliary volunteer at a school for blacks and Hispanics, member of both town and country private clubs. "Finally," she recalled, "I decided I needed a paid job so that my life would be more orderly...
That was too little too late to suit many critics. Earlier this month several leaders of the legal community assembled in the Cash Room of the Treasury Department to enter their pleas before the quadrennial salary commission. Some of the testimony was melodramatic. Said Federal District Court Judge Charles Joiner: "I speak to you of naked and defenseless men and women." Many jurists, added Circuit Court Judge Irving Kaufman, will be reduced to writing letters asking "how they might tell their children that they cannot afford to send them to college." Other spokesmen have been somewhat more restrained...