Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jennings Bryan, piling peroration on peroration in order to close all avenues of intellectual escape. But he can also, by turns, be incisive, poetic, and even now controversial. At its best, the book remains precisely what Rosenzweig intended it to be-the centerpiece of his life and of his lifelong search...
When Kennedy started writing Sport, he brought with him a lifelong obsession with competitive play. He was considered the TIME softball team's ace pitcher till the squad opened its ranks to women players. "I hung up my sneakers," says Kennedy, "because when it comes to softball, I'm a real male chauvinist pig. Somehow I cannot see myself hook-sliding into a lovely second baselady...
...Donaldson case, set against the background of the nation's most enervating war, seems likely to set lifelong comrades-in-arms against one another in the Pentagon. In all the legal and moral morass, Donaldson may never be able to provide his fellow Army officers with a satisfactory answer to one nagging question: What was a brigade commander doing charging about the countryside in a helicopter during battle, pumping at fleeing figures with...
...sobs as he recalled his grief over the death of his beloved Aunt Anna. "She was always accepting me as I am. Being with her was like peace," he explained. Reviewing his childhood sorrow as his wife listened, Lewis recognized that his girl friend represented the goal of his lifelong search for another Aunt Anna. This led him to return to his wife, now more understanding because she had shared his secret feelings...
Still, U.S. officials estimate, fewer than a dozen of the 1,505 G.I.s listed as captured or missing in the war are turncoats working for the enemy. And those few, said one intelligence officer, "are lifelong losers drawn by the guerrilla mystique...