Word: lifelong
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...father was a military hospital clerk, his mother an illiterate Sudanese. He spent his early years working in the fields and attending the village kuttab, an Islamic school where he learned to read and write and studied the Koran. It was the beginning of the lifelong religious faith that, in later years, left the familiar Muslim mark on his forehead from touching the floor in frequent prayer...
...despite his success in the sport (and remember, he's only a junior), Walker still sees football as a dead end. "I have no future in football whatsoever," he says, and talks of a lifelong Army commitment...
...become an effective governor of Ohio; of a heart attack; while vacationing in Italy. The New York City-born DiSalle headed the Office of Price Stabilization during the Korean War and was elected in 1958 to the first four-year gubernatorial term in Ohio's history. A lifelong liberal who once called capital punishment "barbaric," he was one of the first state Governors to support John F. Kennedy in 1960 and served as an honorary chairman of Senator Edward Kennedy's presidential campaign last year...
...piece on Leary, Ga. Leary is a remote town some 60 miles south of Plains, where Oney lived for several weeks to research his piece. The quiet and reflective mien he assumes when discussing what he observed in Leary leave no doubt that the experience profoundly affected him. A lifelong Southerner, Oney realized that places still do exist "where nothing has essentially changed since the Civil...
DIED. Roger Baldwin, 97, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and a lifelong champion of individual freedom; of heart disease; in Ridgewood, N.J. The patrician but plain-living Baldwin worked as a probation officer, college professor, common laborer and executive secretary of the Civic League of St. Louis before joining with two New York City lawyers in 1920 to form the A.C.L.U., which he headed until 1950. Though Baldwin was labeled a leftist for his defense of radical labor unions during the 1920s and 1930s, the A.C.L.U. also came to the aid of Darwinian high school Teacher John...