Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shortly after he had accepted the Democratic nomination for a second term as President. Her husband at the time (she has had four) was George Backer, a New York City real estate operator who worked in F.D.R.'s early political campaigns. Backer had converted Dorothy, then 33, from lifelong Republicanism to an active role in F.D.R.'s 1936 drive. Dorothy and Franklin began seeing each other often at Hyde Park...
...happens, only about 4% of Puerto Rico's voters in the 1972 elections seemed to want liberation. As it also happens, Albizu had waged a lifelong terrorist campaign. He instigated the 1950 assassination attempt against Harry Truman and in 1954, after four of his followers sprayed gunfire around the House of Representatives, wounding five Congressmen, hailed the triggermen for "sublime heroism...
...Eastern intellectuals who were waiting to knock me down before I could even begin to stand up. The whole thing was almost unbearable." But Johnson presided over the transition with such compassion and acumen that for a few months at least, he came close to achieving his lifelong ambition of getting everybody to love...
...while before Taylor himself can get over some of the prejudices that a lifelong association with the Hub and Harvard has produced. He is not planning to terminate his ties around the area, and doesn't plan a move to scenic New Haven until next fall...
...lifelong friend of Dr. Hargis, I have never seen any indication of any moral impropriety on his part. He is a family man, a gentleman and a dedicated preacher of the Gospel. There is not a more honest, sincere and dedicated Christian patriot anywhere. He is respected internationally as a humanitarian and as a man of high moral, ethical and spiritual standards...