Word: doering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...makes the team. He still has the appetite of the growing boy he is. A small race mare does well to eat 8 or 9 qt. of oats a day, and 12 qt. are a lot for an above-average male. Secretariat is what track people call a "good doer." He eats 16 qt., and between meals keeps his groom busy replenishing the supply of hay on which he nibbles almost constantly...
Ofcourse I'm sure I'm not doing the most good I could be doing for other people. But I don't so much have the proprietary view of "people out there" as possible patrons of my services--that one not very oppressed must be a full-time doer of good. What little I know I am happy to share, but I no longer have earth-shaking ministrations to purvey. You wanna know about rutabagas, I'll tell you about rutabagas. You wanna know about how to make a correct revolution...
...wish to express my great delight in reading about Construction Worker Tom Dowd's "good buck"-$94,000 a year [Sept. 181. Here is a story of a doer, a worker, a builder who can work skillfully with his hands if need be. Never mind the comments like sky-high paychecks, outrageous, grossly inflated, needless expense...
Thinker and Doer. Jakobson, the strongest of half a dozen leading contenders, hardly fits his own description. At 48, he is a sturdy, affable former journalist who fought against the Russians in the Winter War of 1939-40 and later wrote a scholarly but unflattering book about the Soviet attack. Jakobson has strong support in London and Washington, where the State Department rates him "a thinker and a doer." Paris has been cool partly because he does not speak particularly good French. In addition, Jakobson is Jewish, and the Arabs, who have not said anything so far about his candidacy...
...thing of awe, the Catholic parish pastor-a force as redoubtable and durable as a Southern Democrat in the U.S. Senate. He was a marvelous blend of Barry Fitzgerald and Boss Tweed: irascible conscience of the stingy, puckish doer of good deeds among the neighborhood's fallen. He was absolute ruler of his realm, certain that parishioners who might doubt the Pope's infallibility would never for a minute dare question...