Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...necessary to sail, it is not necessary to live"; "Be bold. Be bold. Be not too bold." Another, often repeated, writes Thurman, was that the final word as to what you are really worth "lies with the opposite sex." That value was assayed in a series of lifelong flirtations, romantic failures and a doomed marriage to her cousin Bror Blixen. The couple quixotically exchanged Bror's family farm in Denmark for acreage in Kenya. Coffee growing, the young groom announced, was the only thing that had any future. He had wholly discounted his wife's genius...
...discovered that Thorpe had earned $15 a week during two summers as a minor league outfielder, thus forfeiting his amateur status. The loss of the gold medals he had fairly won bothered Thorpe until his death, penniless and crippled by alcohol, in 1953. Last week, after a lifelong battle waged by his daughter, Charlotte Thorpe, 63, the International Olympic Committee announced that it would reinstate Thorpe's medals. "My next push," says Charlotte, "is to get Dad's remains [now in Jim Thorpe, Pa.] back to Oklahoma so his soul can rest...
...become hopelessly alienated from the "party of Lincoln," which enjoyed a virtual monopoly on black support until the New Deal. Today only 8% of blacks identify themselves as Republicans, compared with 81% who consider themselves Democrats. There are so few black Republicans, says Washington Businessman Connie Mack Higgins, a Lifelong member of the G.O.P, that "it's almost Like being addicted. You suffer not only the slings and arrows of your enemies but of your friends and neighbors and all of those who think you're out of your mind...
...there is a war going on between Harvard and Cambridge, Alfred E. Vellucci must be the city's commander-in-chief. The 25 year city council veteran and lifelong East Cambridge resident has built a political career by standing up to Harvard and MIT. jabbing at the two institutions with dramatic speeches in the city council chamber, always with a flair for the newsworthy quote...
...Craxi miscalculated. Interrupting his vacation in the Dolomites, Italian President Sandro Pertini, 85, rushed to Rome and asked Spadolini to form a new government. A lifelong Socialist, Pertini then reportedly reminded Craxi that in Italian politics the party that precipitates early elections usually suffers the most at the ballot box. Ultimately, Craxi appears to have been influenced by an equally persuasive fear: that the Communists would abstain in key parliamentary votes, allowing a minority government without the Socialists to stay in power...