As a golden boy, first in his class at West Point, and a Rhodes Scholar, he stood apart from the hardscrabble world of the combat arms. |
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He uses their millions to advertise his hardscrabble origins and oneness with the masses. |
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We can start with a tiny company in a hardscrabble nickel-and-dime industry and build it into a billion-dollar business. |
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Many people in the audience were skeptical, because their experience has been that it's a hardscrabble existence. |
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And at age 29, after seven hardscrabble years as a professional triathlete, Radkewich fully understands his PR responsibilities. |
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The residents' hardscrabble backgrounds vary greatly, but Beckvold said the women seldom pass judgment. |
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His linen shirt and suspenders hung slackly on his frame, and his sunken cheeks gave him the look of a hardscrabble farmer from a century ago. |
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Their harrowing escape to Erbil has ended in a precarious and hardscrabble existence. |
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But here we are proud of our western heritage: the hardscrabble tradition of pioneers, depression era wheat farmers, and cattle ranchers. |
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He seemed touchy and easily wounded by the hardscrabble game of politics at which Milk thrived. |
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But while the hardscrabble lives Grannan conveys may have affinities with Lange's weathered mother, her aim is not documentary. |
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Mankind soldiers on, living out a hardscrabble life on the surface or holing up in great Vaults built inside caves. |
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Luxury items long denied a nation of hardscrabble origins were suddenly within grasp, from zippy cars to designer food. |
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Mr. Gotti's father, an often unemployed day laborer, led a hardscrabble life. |
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At Big Valley, a co-ed pre-K-12 in hardscrabble Modesto, Calif., the trip to Washington D.C. has been an annual rite of passage. |
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Today for many in hardscrabble, majority-Latino Salinas, home to 150,000 people, The Grapes of Wrath is less lyrical than real. |
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Jewel has gone country, perhaps sensing her hardscrabble youth was wasted on folk rock. |
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But this hardscrabble, prairie town, with its population of 5,000 people, cast its charm on Ballantine. |
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For many fans, her hardscrabble youth and rough-and-tumble style were viewed as endearing strengths. |
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In his hardscrabble campaign, there might not even have been a podium ready to welcome him. |
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Tim's slowed up his release schedule the past few years, and others have gone out and done the hardscrabble archival work that he, and he alone, once undertook. |
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And while today's Yorba Linda is a small town set amid the sprawl of Orange County, the humble home itself still speaks of the Nixon family's rural, hardscrabble life. |
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Today the Jacksons are so deeply associated with the showbiz slickness of Southern California, it's easy to forget their hardscrabble Rust Belt roots. |
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His Angus cows, some a Hereford mix, black and white faces molded into rhetorical Noh masks, were scattered about, grazing on the hardscrabble hillsides. |
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Like mushrooms after a spring rain, signs pop up at this time of year in hardscrabble urban neighborhoods across the country, promising quick and easy money. |
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The victims, as with Chinese attacked by Tibetans, are likely to have been poorer Chinese making a hardscrabble living in China's westernmost province. |
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The theory is that such austerity measures also help neurons survive the hardscrabble environment of a blood-deprived brain. So far, of course, the studies have been on rats rather than people. |
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He came from the opposite end of the social scale from George Bush: born in hardscrabble Laredo, Texas, he dropped out of Baylor University and made his career as a pest-control specialist before discovering politics. |
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The details of Nixon's pre-presidential life the hardscrabble upbringing, the rapid political ascent, the globetrotting vice-presidency are dispatched with efficiency. |
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Standard histories of the American spirit use a hardscrabble past to anticipate our glorious present, but Isenberg takes every opportunity to mottle that picture. |
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What Granik and her cinematographer Michael McDonough do, unhurriedly yet so compellingly, is to seal us within this hardscrabble milieu and its unyielding, lawless atmosphere. |
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After Upheaval Bottom and Hardscrabble Bottom, we get off our bikes for a hike out to Fort Bottom, a well-preserved Anasazi lookout tower. |
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He retired from the State Police in 1985 and spent his retirement at Hardscrabble Farm, in Sterling, breeding Yorkshire, Hampshire and Landrace pigs. |
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And then there's the formidable nature of Helen Mirren's Dean Hardscrabble, a tough-talking leader with a face like a nibbled chocolate bourbon biscuit. |
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