Word: lifelong
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...children of an I.R.A. member who fled Ireland for the U.S. in 1928, White, who has six children of his own, is president of the Irish Society of Philadelphia, an American 'Legionnaire and a booster of a boys' club. He is also, he says, a "lifelong Democrat" who managed to be elected to the state legislature in the Eisenhower landslide. Redistricted out of his seat in 1954, he decided to go to law school and become a criminal defense lawyer. All the while, he stayed active in Democratic ward politics, and his loyalty was rewarded when...
...executive suites, the bewilderment is no different. Said Bell & Howell Chairman Donald Frey: "I'm both puzzled and appalled. I just can't get the words and the music together." Sighed lifelong Democrat Newton Minow, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and a Carter supporter: "The Cabinet is not the problem. It is the people in the White House. Elevating Ham Jordan is no answer...
...addition, the bureau found that one of every five households now consists of just one person, up 54% since 1970. But it warned that the data "do not necessarily portend a sharp rise in lifelong singleness." Most of the increase is accounted for by widows and young people postponing marriage. Other studies show that living together is largely a way station en route from bachelorhood to matrimony...
...prints and drawings which he donated to the National Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress; in Jenkintown, Pa. Son of Julius Rosenwald, mail-order pioneer who preceded him as Sears chairman, Rosenwald retired from Sears at 48 to devote himself to philanthropy, various political interests and his lifelong passion, collecting...
...from a brain tumor; in Miami. The Hungarian-born Polgar, who held doctorates in economics and psychology, said he discovered his telepathic powers upon recovering from amnesia and aphasia caused by World War I battle wounds. A good snowman who performed on the lecture circuit, he also conducted a lifelong campaign to establish hypnosis as a scientific discipline, especially useful as a substitute for anesthesia during childbirth and in curing the smoking habit...