Word: lifelong
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...could find only the food on the right side of his plate. Miller, the author of several best-selling novels, including The Good Mother and While I Was Gone, manages to spot the rare moments of accidental levity. "One thing I haven't figured out about this place," the lifelong academic observes about his new home. "No one ever seems to graduate from here...
Roxanna K. Myhrum ’05, a lifelong vegetarian who attended the event, said she came to see how Singer would answer philosophical questions in person. At the end of the discussion, Myhrum described Singer’s responses to student questions as “consistent and satisfying...
...does Van Allen remain so creative and sharp? His wife Abbie credits his lifelong, intense focus on his work. "He can hardly wait to get up in the morning and go to his office," she says. "He has so many ideas, he realizes that the time is short, and he worries that he won't get all his ideas written up." That leaves little time to socialize, and Van Allen confines his outside activities to monthly meetings of the Club, an Iowa City men's discussion group, and to occasional travel, during which he and Abbie visit their five children...
Then, during a Jan. 31 appearance on “Hardball” with Chris Matthews, he revealed that he had been a “lifelong Democrat” until very recently. When asked why he had become such an ardent supporter of President Bush’s war strategy, Miller gave a most rational, and un-Hollywood, answer. If he had to put his faith in George Bush or Saddam Hussein, Miller said, he’d choose Bush. This gets to the crux, really, of the problem that anti-war celebrities have encountered on the Iraq issue...
...burning desire to play because why else would anyone subject himself to an onslaught of pucks and huge, angry men? I see dedication in training because those hours crouching in the goal could not have been fun. I see the ability to work with a team to fulfill a lifelong dream to be the unequivocal best...