Word: plodder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only a plodder of average talents and plain common sense," the missionary once said of himself. "If I have been remarkable for anything, it has been for perseverance." Last week in Yokohama, a monument was raised to the remarkable plodder who was one of the first to introduce Japan to Western and Christian ideas...
...soldier Dutra, the honest plodder who had faced one crisis after another in three uneasy years as president, gave a good account of himself. He had balanced the 1947 budget and had $25 million left over (he was $141 million in the red in 1946). Moreover, Brazil's inflation-one of the worst in South America-now seemed to have leveled...
...confidently predicts that Sweden's Lennart Strand will be the first to run a four-minute mile. With the Wanamaker Mile behind him, Hansenne expects to give MacMitchell some uncomfortable moments in this week's Boston Hunter Mile. Experts agree that he is the most promising plodder to invade the U.S. in years, and that on an outdoor track he has Olympic class...
Harry & Tom. In 1934 Boss Tom Pendergast, the corrupt Kansas City politico, was looking for a respectable name to sweeten up the noisome Pendergast ticket. Harry Truman, a likable plodder, had lived a clean life: he did not smoke, and did not like his womenfolk to smoke; he was a high Mason; he had married the girl he went to Sunday School with; he had been a World War I hero (an artillery captain, he saved his panicky battery from a German trap in the St. Mihiel fighting). He was a farm boy become county judge, with friends...
Undramatic but competent, the new bishop calls himself "a plodder," gets many more men to church and spends far more time ringing doorbells than does the average big church minister. Trinity's congregation of 2,232 ranges from Back Bay drawing rooms to slum tenements. Dr. Hart visited them...