Word: lifelong
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...that is a term that would be appropriate. I find it extremely challenging. I find it more satisfying than any job I've had because I feel that my ability to contribute to policy has been enhanced, and therefore it is satisfying. I suppose this has been a lifelong endeavor for me and the greater your responsibilities, the more satisfaction one derives...
Mary Mebane is lecturer in composition at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. The two passages on these pages are excerpted from her just published autobiography, Mary (Viking; $12.95). A lifelong teacher of literature who was born in Durham County, N.C., in 1933, Mebane in her book recounts with insight, compassion and anger what it was like growing up female and black in the South before the civil rights revolution began...
...York, O'Hara continued his drinking and romances at the Stork Club, El Morocco, Larue, the Algonquin and Rudy Vallee's nightclub. At St. Martin and Mino's, on East Fifty-Second Street, he met Wolcott Gibbs, fiction editor of The New Yorker, who became a lifelong friend. In his novels and short stories, O'Hara renamed Pottsville Gibbesville in the editor's honor...
...American Red Cross blood centers last week. The first supplies will go to vulnerable newborns and children with leukemia or weakened immune systems; a dosage provides immunity for about six weeks. But VZIG is not being recommended for all children. Pediatricians still believe the best way to develop a lifelong immunity to chicken pox is to get it, itching, scratching...
...Nobel-prizewinning chemist whose 1931 discovery with two colleagues of the heavy form of hydrogen called deuterium helped usher in the nuclear age and led to the development of the hydrogen bomb; of a heart attack; in La Jolla, Calif. An Indiana clergyman's son who remained a lifelong critic of military force, Urey was an innovative researcher in a wide range of scientific fields. He was considered the father of modern lunar science for his speculations about the moon's geology. During World War II his work in separating the heavy or isotope forms of uranium...