Word: servants
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...rewarding," saying that he considered running for higher office only once. He made the decision not to run for state senate when Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. decided to run in 1980 Other than this brief flirtation with state government, Duehay has remained throughout his life a dedicated and tireless servant to his city...
This year, four Harvard undergraduates went to the nation's self-proclaimed intern capitol, Washington, D.C., for their externships--with lawyers, a civil servant and a journalist...
Cambridge Mayor Francis H. Duehay 55, a city public servant for 36 years, has announced he will retire from political life when his term ends next January...
...dark, compact man with mischievous gray-blue eyes, Fermi was the son of a civil servant, an administrator with the Italian national railroad. He discovered physics at 14, when he was left bereft by the death of his cherished older brother Giulio during minor throat surgery. Einstein characterized his own commitment to science as a flight from the I and the we to the it. Physics may have offered Enrico more consolatory certitudes than religion. Browsing through the bookstalls in Rome's Campo dei Fiori, the grieving boy found two antique volumes of elementary physics, carried them home and read...
...socially and intellectually, Covington is the superior psychologist, gifted with a rustic common sense that allows him to hold his own with the great man and slyly enrich himself under Darwin's nose by selling rare animals to London collectors. Like the fantastic tortoises they encounter in the Galapagos, servant and master are perfectly adapted to their respective niches in the world, "proof that God's hand sizzled here with one thing, there with another, and the chambers of his gallery were infinite in their on-going...