Word: wente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than an hour and a half earlier Ferrante and St. Louis had combined for the first Harvard score with the roles reversed. St. Louis went deep into the right corner to recover the ball and head it into the middle. The waiting Ferrante brought the ball quickly under control and pushed off a left-footed groundshot that grazed the goalpost on its way in for a score...
...exercise through tennis, playing at least five times a week and teaching Rosalynn to play. He took up jogging a year ago, when he held the Middle East summit at Camp David and discovered he had no time for tennis. Says Lukash: "In his usual fashion, he went at it intensely...
Long before Johnson went on to fulfill that prophecy, and do a bit better, he accumulated a number of scholastic and community achievements. So did Kennedy (Pulitzer Prize author) and Nixon (law school scholarship) and Ford (Eagle Scout). So did Jimmy Carter, who led his high school, was admitted to Admiral Rickover's nuclear fraternity, succeeded in business and local politics...
...successful and reputable New Hampshire art auctioneer, Straw bought his first painting for $75 when he was 14, and at 22 opened his first gallery, in Newburyport. He was already well connected with regional dealers and collectors, and his business prospered. A slim, impeccably dressed young man, he went to church every Sunday and always paid his bills on time. His obvious expertise inspired confidence. So did his gallery's handsomely printed brochures. Says one of Straw's creditors: "The art business is filled with horse-trading. Steve had the ability to horse-trade and maneuver...
...bitterness of the civil war was illustrated last March by violent riots in Herat, where Muslim peasants and 2,000 defecting Kabul troops went on a bloody rampage, killing hundreds of Khalq officials, army soldiers and foreigners, including at least 20 Soviet advisers and their families. Kabul responded with an all-out attack by helicopter gunships and jets, leaving some 20,000 Afghans dead in the streets. Though it crushed the riot, the massive retaliation reinforced the tribesmen's conviction that the Khalq regime is an atheistic puppet of the Soviet Union. Said one unrepentant factory business manager...