Word: loner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born into a dull, grey Victorian world, Chichester became a loner in a home dominated by a clergyman father who "squashed any enthusiasm," and in private schools where the punishment for a misdemeanor was a whipping. So in later life-after careers as a sheep-shearer, gold prospector and land speculator in New Zealand and a mapmaker in England-Chichester was struck with sea fever. Though he thought "the whole prospect of the Atlantic so appalling that I can't face it," he nonetheless thrilled to "the moan of the wind in the rigging," loved drawing "deep, mad breaths...
...Robinson. That left the Yanks with an excess of outfielders and no third baseman. So off to the St. Louis Cardinals, in exchange for much-traveled Third Baseman Charley Smith, went Roger Maris-the man who broke Ruth's mark by clouting 61 homers in 1961. A natural loner who was more annoyed than pleased by fame and had been hampered by injuries for the past two seasons, Maris was scarcely surprised. "I can't complain," he shrugged-but neither could the Yankees. Maris's salary was $75,000 a year, and Smith...
...Warren Report, issued more than two years ago after a ten-month investigation into the killing, said flatly that Lee Oswald-alone-shot Kennedy, wounded Texas Governor John Connally, murdered a policeman and was, in turn, shot dead by Jack Ruby, whom it pictured as a demented loner. The report was widely praised at first-but no longer. The discrepancies-real or imagined-surrounding the assassination have become an increasingly obsessive topic the world over...
...father had urged. But he flunked chemistry and vomited while dissecting a frog. He wrote a note saying that he had dishonored himself, then shot himself. A highly creative coed at a large Eastern private school scored high marks in some classes, dismal grades in others. She was a loner, obviously unhappy, and she jumped from the 14th floor of the campus library. In her room, authorities found a novel she had completed. Professors said that it showed great promise...
...Uninvited. In view of Romney's past record of running as a loner, Griffin had scant hope for help. But things are different this year. Romney now has realistic hopes of winning the Republican presidential nomination. His prospects were advanced last week by a national poll that gave the Governor only 2% less support than Lyndon Johnson. In another survey, top Republican "citizens" (as opposed to party professionals) rated Romney a heavy, 40%-to-29% favorite over Richard Nixon for the 1968 G.O.P. presidential nomination. As Romney well knows, the national Republican powers would consider him a leading candidate...