Word: lifelong
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...Detroit's players may face a lifelong pall by falling to the Packers. Or they could steal a page out of Steve Spurrier's playbook and laugh about their dubious place in history. Spurrier, the head coach at the University of South Carolina, who won a national title at Florida and also coached the Washington Redskins from 2002 through 2003, was the quarterback on that winless '76 Buccaneers team. He's a bit more lighthearted about the whole experience and enjoys being remembered for something...
...Hackney, London, into what he called "a very respectable, Jewish, lower-middle-class family"; his father Jack was a ladies' tailor. At Hackney Downs School, perceptive teachers nurtured Harold's talent for writing. He was also mad for sports, especially cricket, which would prove a lifelong passion. In his 50s he said that his "three main interests" were family, work and cricket...
...lifelong bachelor, Nobel lived a solitary life and spent most of his time tinkering with inventions, amassing 355 patents by the time he died in 1896. Following Nobel's death, his executors discovered that he had secretly created five annual prizes - for chemistry, physics, literature, medicine and peace - in his will to honor "the greatest benefit on mankind." It all came as quite a surprise. "It took five years to get the prizes started, because everyone had to figure it all out," says Hans Jornvall, secretary of the Nobel Committee at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden - the group that chooses...
...that the President-elect has established by selecting an almost exclusively well-credentialed cabinet and senior staff. Enumerating the impressive almae matres of these Obama appointments, Brooks imagined a new era of government in which its chief stewards do not come from the “insular coterie of lifelong aides who depend upon [the president] for their well-being,” but are putatively the best and brightest America has to offer—and have the Ivy League pedigrees to prove...
...Obama's victory represents not only a change in the economic order but also the primacy of some fundamental freedoms. It has been our "conservative" party, the supposed champion of liberty, that curtailed the right of habeas corpus, the right to enter into a lifelong relationship with a chosen partner and the right not to be subjected to unwarranted surveillance from our government. Bill Brownson, Woodland, Calif...