Word: lifelong
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Liberal Supporter. What other Japanese groups support the Alliance is not .clear. "The manifesto mentions only Yukio Ozaki. ... He is called the 'greatest liberal statesman.' " Ozaki, now about 90, is widely known in Japan as an independent in politics. He has been a lifelong advocate of Japanese collaboration with Russia. He supported this idea when Russia was ruled by Tsar Nicholas, continued to support it after the Bolsheviks came to power. In the 1942 Japanese elections he was so popular that the Government did not dare to void his candidacy, and the Supreme Court acquitted...
...village spinster, in her later years became cross, sharp-tongued, quarrelsome and grasping, with long black hair, broken, irregular teeth (mostly false) and dirty hands and fingernails. Their brother Austin married Susan, their school girl friend, a tavernkeeper's daughter. Susan soon became involved in a lifelong feud with sister-in-law Lavinia...
...celebrate his goth birthday: "On the eighth of March, 1862 . . . the sloop Cumberland was sunk by the Merrimac, off Newport News. The vessel went down with her flag flying-and when a little later my regiment arrived . . . I saw the flag still flying above the waters. . . . It was a lifelong text for a young man. Fight to the end and go down with your flag at the peak...
...daring idea was a man's-husky, grey-haired Father William J. Finn (TIME, July 24), onetime choirmaster of Manhattan's Church of St. Paul the Apostle, who trained and directed his singers as a "demonstration" in his lifelong fight to revive Renaissance music. Irreverent observers (who nonetheless have a wholesome respect for Father Finn's showmanship) promptly dubbed the choir "Finn's Jennies." The talkative, 63-year-old conductor called them "esthetically aware...
...without diplomatic portfolio-to go to Berlin in order to refute some popular German lies about British mistreatment of Boer prisoners. A café quarrel leads to a duel, thanks to which young Candy 1) gets the wound which causes him to raise his Blimpish mustache, 2) makes a lifelong friend of his unwilling opponent (Anton Walbrook), 3) loses, to this Prussian officer, a charming English girl (Deborah Kerr) whom he has shyly begun to love...