Word: seth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dockside in a suit that is too hot for him, wondering cheerfully what is going to happen next. The waterfront in this sturdy and sometimes impassioned novel is that of Savannah, Ga., in the year 1878. The young man who has just disembarked there is 17-year-old Seth Adler, lately of New York City...
...himself is no zealot, nor is he especially religious. But his father Aaron won a Medal of Honor in the Battle of the Wilderness, and young Seth is passionately idealistic about the U.S. The Jewish virtues (as he sees them) of intelligence, industry and warmth are precisely those of the American character, Seth feels. The anti-Semitism that persists is a dwindling residue from the Old World, and what is important is that Jews can take their part in U.S. society with out apology or fearfulness...
Whipple clicked on four of seven passes, and Bruin backs Wally Shields and Seth Morris combined for 170 yards rushing, but the biggest story of the game may have been the Brown defense...
...Angeles magazine has a weight problem. The glossy monthly's 296-page August issue is so loaded with ads that readers have a hard time dogging a feature story through the thickets of plug. "We're beginning to turn some advertisers down," admits Seth Baker, president of CHC Corp., the magazine's parent company. "We're going to have to be more selective...
...tack room. As butlers proffered champagne from silver trays, Madden screened footage of his past turf champions. Tom Gentry, the showman of the bluegrass, hawked his yearlings like a carnival huckster, giving away Tom Gentry T shirts, Tom Gentry hats and Tom Gentry Slush, a rum and lime concoction. Seth Hancock, breeder for Claiborne Farm, conducted business more sedately. His yearlings were paraded six at a time before sharp-eyed trainers searching for tiny flaws: a foot that was slightly crooked, a back with too much sway, undersized hindquarters, oversized hocks. No frills, just fine horseflesh...