Word: lifelong
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...lies or evasions people bring to explanations of their lives can be as revealing of their real personalities (if there are such things) as the truth (if that even exists). And in Edith and Edie Beale, Albert and David found a mother-daughter act eager to act out their lifelong psychodrama. As Edie, who was 56 when the movie was shot, confides to the brothers about her dreams of nightclub stardom and her altruistic imprisonment tending for her mother in Grey Gardens, Edith, then nearing 80, insisted that she was the caregiver and her daughter the emotional invalid...
...nominate Representative John Murtha. A lifelong hawk, he was willing to tell the truth to the American people about the Iraq war and helped make it the central issue in the 2006 campaign. When he spoke out against the war, he followed his gut and his conscience. In the process, he moved the people--and the polls...
...friend and mentor and inspiration all my life. He and his wife Rose, his constant colleague and support, were lifelong friends of my parents Herbert and Mildred Stein after they met at the University of Chicago in the mid '30s. My father, a distinguished economist himself and chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers under Nixon and briefly under Ford, forever stood in awe of the man. As my pop said many times, "Friedman was like every other economics student at Chicago in those days except twice as smart...
...First Class Marshal Chrix E. Finne ’07. “They’re responsible for keeping the class connected for the rest of our lives.” Botelho wrote in an e-mail that she is “excited that it is a lifelong position where I’ll be able to make sure the class has the financial means to do whatever it wants.” About 20 people applied for the two jobs. The winners were selected by a seven-member committee made up of class marshals, house representatives from...
...lifelong resident of Oklahoma, and a diehard, bordering-on-obsessive Sooners fan, I rarely claim regional superiority over New England...