Word: lifelong
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...scrappy, indomitable, steely soldier chick. Liberal feminists I know who reflexively opposed this war woke up changed women the morning that Lynch's exploits were described in the Washington Post. "I hope she blew them all away," one told me, her surging sense of pride and solidarity trumping her lifelong abhorrence of firearms. (So much for the M-16 as phallic symbol.) The other hero in Lynch's story, the conscience-stricken Iraqi lawyer who walked miles back and forth across a battle zone to help the army plot her rescue, confounds the biggest preconception of all: monolithic Islamic anti...
Stone has a lifelong passion for food and restaurants. “When I was 12, my dad and I tried to get going a kids restaurant guide,” he said, “We worked on it for about a year but never got it published?...
Margaret Sanger, totally unaware that her lifelong dream had become reality, spent the day at her home outside Tucson, Ariz. Since 1914 she had battled ridicule and rigid laws, even gone to jail, all in pursuit of a simple, inexpensive contraceptive that would change women's lives--and save some as well. Now she was 80 and retired from her globe-trotting efforts. No one from G.D. Searle & Co., the drug firm, thought to call the woman who had pioneered and pushed for funding to develop the world's first birth-control pill, called Enovid-10, a synthetic combination...
...elation, just a sigh of relief, Sanger said, "It's certainly about time." Then perking up, she added, "Perhaps this calls for champagne." Her son, a doctor who had patients waiting, and her granddaughter, due for class at nursing school, begged off. So Margaret Sanger, who had made a lifelong crusade of birth control after seeing her mother die at age 50, worn out by 18 pregnancies and 11 children, celebrated her victory alone--but triumphant. --By Cathy Booth Thomas
...dramatic engine of Tearing Down the Walls, Monica Langley's biography of Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill, is his lifelong struggle for acceptance among Wall Street's elite. What a burden, we are repeatedly reminded, was Weill's background as a rumply Jewish kid from Brooklyn, N.Y.--he's even the wrong kind of Jew!--as he fought to overcome anti-Semitism and class prejudice to make it to the top, not once but twice. It's a nice story line but a somewhat artificial...