Word: lifelong
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Cooped-Up Rebels. Though one of his forebears had been appointed the first resident consul in Canton by President James Madison, it was mostly wanderlust that led the Missouri-born Snow into a lifelong love affair with China. After earning a journalism degree at the University of Missouri and working as a reporter briefly in Kansas...
...population. Far from being irrelevant, he argued, the priest's profession is a newly vital one. Today's priest is alive in "the most religious time in human history." People are no longer born into a given set of beliefs that can be expected to claim their lifelong loyalty. "There are other choices available," said Greeley, "and it is a very heavy burden to have to choose. Questions of meaning and belonging are more explicit in contemporary America than they have ever been before"-questions that it is the priest's role to help answer...
From his father, young Bob acquired much more than his tolerance of conservatism. Philip Coles has had a lifelong interest in people different from himself. Though Jewish, he once lived in a Benedictine monastery, and though well educated, he lived for a time among London workingmen. "In a sense, he was a social observer," Robert Coles says. On long walks with Bob, "he'd point out things about the world and about various neighborhoods, and he'd ask, what are people's whole lives like...
...flyable planes. Thereupon Hughes flew his monstrosity for a mile at 70 ft. over Los Angeles Harbor, the only time it was ever in the air. Today, at an annual rental of $46,000, the plane is hangared under guard on the Long Beach waterfront, a monument to Hughes' lifelong reluctance to admit failure-and his tendency to remember slights, real or fancied...
...idea of Nixon picking Senator Edward Brooke as his running mate in 1972 [Dec. 13] would be a stroke of political genius! As a middle-of-the-road lifelong Republican WASP, I take heart that we would have an excellent chance with such a ticket...