Word: professionals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Evans and his Huntsville project soon received the attention of the national press. Newsweek, in an article reporting the project, described his achievement this way: "A poor farm boy by birth, an engineer by profession and a passionate apostle of black self-help by virtue of his own experience, Evans...
It is true that there have been leaks from all sides in Watergate, that the news profession dearly loves exposes and scoops, and that the heat of competition sometimes melts good judgment. Last week, for instance, the Washington Star-News disclosed a private communication from Sirica to his fellow judges...
While still in prison, Eddison received a law degree through correspondence with the University of London. Upon his release in 1971 and after extended pleas to the government, he became one of seven black Rhodesian lawyers in a profession numbering 500.
...drown in the tidal wave he creates"). After two laps, Oldfield surfaced gasping and decided to watch the close finish between defending Superstar Champion Bob Seagren, a pole vaulter by profession, and Kyle Rote Jr., son of the former New York Giants split end and a professional soccer star in his own right. Rote won by a hair...
Then comes a biographer, who begins with the fact of genius. He moves off in exactly the wrong direction because it is the only direction available to him: back to neurosis, profession, friends, money problems, sexual despair and the rest.