Word: hurrier
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Peter Portal is a worrier and a hurrier. He knows he has a tremendous job to do and not much time. His job-as he sees it -is not only to defend Britain but to crush Germany. One of his first acts when he became Chief of Staff was to issue a strong recommendation that all Air Ministry officers work six ten-hour days a week...
Besides being a hurrier, Peter Portal is studious, thorough, meticulous. As a boy he became interested in falconry; by 16 he was writing learned articles on the ancient sport. At 41, while commander of the post at Aden, he took up sailing; and read every book he could get until he had mastered every salty trick of luff and leech. Also at Aden, he became interested in photography; and cared so much for detail that he went into micro-pictures, snapping miniature plants and shells...
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