Word: lifelong
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...lifelong Republican and a federal judge since his appointment by Eisenhower in 1957, Sirica has been the chief judge for the D.C. district court for more than two years. As such, he has the pick of the cases, and he took the Watergate trial for himself. From the beginning he established control, questioning witnesses himself, sometimes effectively, sometimes...
...also unable to say how much of the inequality is caused by discrimination and how much is due to the cultural role traditionally assigned to women. It leans toward the latter reason by stressing that few women can match the intense, continuous and lifelong dedication to a career typical of men. Many women temporarily drop out of the labor force because of pregnancy, child rearing and other home responsibilities. Even a woman who devotes herself continuously to a job' faces drawbacks. "A wife seldom is free to migrate to wherever her own prospects are best," says the report...
...Harvard education behind him, including lots of Latin and Greek and a course or two under Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A lifelong bachelor, Alger was rather disastrously prone to the unintentional double-entendre -e.g., "Imogene laid herself out to entertain him." But he was also capable of modestly cynical repartee: "When a man gets to be 51, marriage is very hazardous." "It always...
...lifelong Democrat, Sinatra did not give up. In 1968 he volunteered to campaign for Hubert Humphrey, but his hopes there never materialized. Annoyed, Sinatra turned to the Republicans and campaigned for Ronald Reagan in 1970. Through Reagan's graces Sinatra came to know Spiro Agnew. Cordial friends ever since, Agnew frequently spends long weekends at Sinatra's place in Palm Springs. The Vice President honored Sinatra in January 1971 by flying to Palm Springs for the dedication of the Martin Anthony Sinatra Medical Education Center, Sinatra's monument to his father. Later, while on a good-will...
...staffers mutter about low salaries and heavy work loads but find brief reportorial stints stretching into lifelong careers at what they call "the tender trap." It has also been described as "40 freelance writers working under the same roof and (by Boston Globe Editor Tom Winship) as the best newspaper "of its size in the country." Such encomiums disturb the Yankee equanimity of Lawrence K. ("Pete") Miller, 65, owner, editor and publisher of the Berkshire (Mass.) Eagle, who attributes the paper's reputation for class to "accidents of inheritance, age, personality, location, and the like." Whatever the reasons...