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Word: valedictorian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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...team didn't do quite as well his senior year, but Woolway--of course, the team captain--collected All League and All American honors. He corrects an error in the Harvard press guide that says he was number one in his class. "Not exactly valedictorian," he says. But close...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: To Harvard From the City of Angels | 11/13/1980 | See Source »

...When Terkel asks him if he could bribe a policeman after the revolution, Cortez encapsulates an entire mind of state: "No, because everybody a cop." Cortez's dream is simply to rise upon his failures-a vision not substantially different from Ted Turner's: "I never was valedictorian. I couldn't make the football team, I couldn't make the baseball team . . . That's kinda how I got into sailing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Reservoir of Untapped Power | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

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