Word: loner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carew was shifted to first base. He has since blossomed into a graceful and steady defensive player who-like all the great ones-makes the tough chance look easy. The loner has also become a mature team leader as well as the heart of the Twins offense. Though he has become a superstar, he has remained unassuming, claiming no special privileges-other than the right to coddle his bats. On the contrary, he shags stray balls for batting-practice pitchers-a job usually left to utility players and aging coaches. Once when he failed to run out a long foul...
...early years in the majors, Carew was moody, a loner who made friends slowly and suffered slights poorly. In 1970 a runner crashed into him while trying to break up a double play. Carew underwent surgery for a torn knee cartilage and, thereafter, was gun-shy on the pivot. This did not endear him to Manager Bill Rigney, nor Rigney to Carew. In a rare admission for an athlete, Carew acknowledged his fear and tried to conquer his anxiety on the field. Rigney's public questioning of his courage did not help...
...pictures, and with good color in his face." His voice was high-pitched, and he spoke in short, broken sentences. His grammar was bad, but his mind was "clever and cunning." Ray rarely gestured, showed absolutely no sense of humor and projected the air of being a loner. He started out sitting next to his latest attorney, Jack Kershaw of Nashville, but gradually inched away during the two-hour interview until he was all by himself at the end of the table...
Brown needed only six years to earn his bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees in physics, as well as a lasting reputation as a grind and a loner. Comments a Pentagon wag: "I hear his mother had to put him out now and then to sun him." The legend is not far from the truth, but he did find time to become a determined swimmer and tennis player...
MARILYN BERGER, 41, joined NBC last winter after a decade as a diplomatic reporter for Newsday and later the Washington Post, and last summer became the network's senior White House correspondent. The transition to television has not been easy. "I'm a loner, and TV is very much a group art, with a camera crew and a producer," says Brooklyn-born Berger. She dislikes being "pinned at the White House" for staged events when she could be out developing stories. Says she: "If I had the chance, I'd like to have my own half-hour...