Word: sit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thurmond's age has become an unspoken issue of the campaign. But the trim, fit Senator, who can do as many push-ups and sit-ups as his years (75), effectively defuses the issue with the help of his 31-year-old wife Nancy, a former Miss South Carolina. All summer she barnstormed the state in a van dubbed the Strom-Trek with their four young children, ages two to seven, who wear T shirts emblazoned VOTE FOR MY DADDY...
...know," Isaac Bashevis Singer I used to muse, "when I sit down to write I have a feeling that I'm talking maybe to millions or maybe to nobody." Last week he could be assured of at least 18 avid readers-the members of the Swedish Academy, which awarded the 74-year-old writer the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature for his "impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life...
...early '30s, just before the Holocaust, the Singer brothers left Poland for the promised city. In New York Isaac worked for the Jewish Daily Forward, a Yiddish newspaper. "I remember thinking in those days," says the laureate, "if only somebody would guarantee me $15 a week, I could sit down and really do some work." The money was a long time coming. For two decades he was supported by his second wife, Alma, who worked as a salesclerk in Manhattan department stores. By the time of his brother's death in 1944, Singer had become a recognized writer...
...care of, all right, but a stand-up comic can do the same thing in a fraction of the time. Once the chuckling subsides you are left with just another low-budget Western and a vacuous feeling. Vacuous because the film is silly, and vacuous because you have to sit through all the gunfights, the gallows scenes and the final ride into the sunset...
Carlton Fisk, despite a variety of minor pains, started all but eight games this year, something that no other catcher has ever done, anywhere. Butch Hobson led the league in errors, trying desperately to play in spite of his aching elbow. He couldn't bring himself to sit out, and Zimmer didn't have the courage to take him out--for Hobson's sake, as well as for the team...