Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Theodore Reeves) treats the romances of two Jewish sisters who share a Manhattan flat. Ruth is a salesgirl engaged to a bookkeeper: the couple is patiently building toward marriage with a joint bank account, and they talk in comic clichés. Stella, the other sister (Lee Grant), has risen somewhat snootily above her background: a college graduate with a magazine job, she was engaged to a doctor who has just married someone else. She is down in the mouth when she meets the bookkeeper's bright cousin Ralph (Anthony Franciosa), who sells hardware in Buffalo. Ralph falls...
...watch a friend play at Harvard in those days," he recalls. "At the time there was an opening for a trainer. My friend finally persuaded me to apply, and here I am." From this rather humble beginning as a trainer with no experience and little knowledge, Eddie Noonan has risen to the presidency of the Eastern division of the College Trainers Association. Dillon supplyman Richie Dwyer calls him "the best trainer in the business...
...taking the step in the face of extraordinary financial pressure brought on by rising costs and an income which has risen at a much slower rate," Dodds stated. "Our faculty is our greatest asset and its members must not be asked to shoulder the whole burden...
There have been two schools of thought about varsity coaches and their origins. The advocates of one maintain that a name coach is preferable to an unknown, primarily because he attracts good players. Members of the other believe that a coach who has risen through the farm system is better qualified...
...governed New York from 1743 to 1751, liked the idea of being commander in chief of His Majesty's armies in America but didn't care much for the responsibilities that went with the job. In the Seven Years' War he had done gallantly and risen to colonel. After that he was groom of the bedchamber to the Duke of Gloucester, was elected to Parliament, went to the Balkans to observe Catherine the Great's Russian armies fighting the Turks (later Clinton wanted to see Russians instead of Hessians sent to the colonies). By the time...