Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Niebuhr as Mentor...
With a record like that, Terrier Coach Jack Parker, in his tenth season as B.U.'s mentor, had some trouble comprehending what happened to his team Wednesday night. He gave his players a chewing out in the locker room after the game; responding to reporter's questions later, he was still to get his thoughts together, Instead he kept repeating himself: "We made mistake and Harvard played well...We made more mistakes, and Harvard played very well...We made a hell of a lot of mistakes." He found other words in describe his team's play (Harvard scored four power...
...Texas Congressman Dick Kleberg. In Washington he cheated his way to victory in another election (for leadership of a group of legislative aides) and carefully cultivated the crowned heads of Congress. Chief among them was House Minority Leader (later Speaker) Sam Rayburn, a fellow Texan who became his beloved mentor, and whom Johnson eventually betrayed in a competition to become Franklin D. Roosevelt's chief operative in Texas. "Lyndon had one of the most incredible capacities for dealing with older men," recalls F.D.R. Brain Truster Tommy Corcoran, whose boss was among those captivated by the Johnson treatment. "He could...
...Researching a long Voice feature called "Jews Without Money, Revisited," he spent months in a Lower East Side housing project in New York City, satisfying a growing obsession under the guise of reporting; the same exploration brought him into contact with the Chasidic rabbi Joseph Singer, who became his mentor...
...succeeded Marshal Kliment Voroshilov in the post of Soviet President. Brezhnev took advantage of the undemanding job to travel widely outside the U.S.S.R. as a spokesman for Khrushchev's foreign policy. In 1964 he was a member of the conspiracy against his former mentor that forced Khrushchev into retirement. Brezhnev's reward: the high-ranking post of First Secretary of the Communist Party. In 1966 Brezhnev assumed the grander title of General Secretary that had been adopted by Stalin...