Word: careering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three boys when war began. He turned down a Navy commission, joined the Army as an officer candidate, served nearly a year as an enlisted man. Though he eventually saw service overseas in G-2 of General Omar Bradley's Twelfth Army Group, he considers his Army career "utterly undistinguished...
...that point, McCloy's career was clearly consistent and easy to follow. What happened next is harder-and more important-to understand. Within a few months of McCloy's arrival in Washington, Stimson got Roosevelt to appoint McCloy Assistant Secretary of War. If this was a "policy job," it had been given to a man who had little experience with either policy or politics. If it was an "administrative job," it had gone to a man with no experience of administration...
...contented either with the United Nations or with the general situation in Europe ... I am not contented with myself . . . with the development of my character . . . and with my literary career ... At any rate, there seems to me very little ground for general contentment . . . and I must repeat ... I fear the contented man. I fear him, because there is no progress unless there is discontent . . . Without it today, I even believe, there can be no inner peace of mind...
Last January, 48-year-old Editor Crowder, a lawyer who switched to journalism four years ago, was handed the hottest issue of his newspaper career. Employees of the Flora Municipal Light & Water System joined the A.F.L. Electrical Workers, and asked the City Council to recognize them as a union for collective bargaining. When the council refused, 19 employees went on strike. The Sentinel declared itself editorially neutral in the dispute, promised to report "both sides" in its news columns...
...long and often stormy banking & business career, big, bull-necked old A. P. Giannini had retired officially at least three times. But he had too much energy to sit still; unofficially he went right on working so hard at his Bank of America that friends knew there was only one way he would really retire. A month ago, as he passed his 79th birthday, A.P. confided to a reporter that it would be his last. A.P., who had been right so many times before, was right this time...