Word: plodder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senatorial contest in Massachusetts is just such an election. The incumbent, Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall, is a plodder who has given the Eisenhower Administration strong support. The Democratic candidate, Foster Furcolo, has had an excellent voting record, but has spotted it by surrendering to the rankest form of political expediency...
...pupils in his Paris school, Pierre Larousse was a "small, dumpy man, his beard unkempt, his eyes sparkling-an introverted, sinister plodder strongly suspected of subversive ideas." But subversive or not, Pierre Larousse had one idea for which France has long been grateful. "I want," he announced in 1863, "to teach everyone everything...
...Manhattan, World Lightweight (135 Ibs.) Champion Jimmy Carter, a 29-year-old plodder, knocked out George Araujo, a 22-year-old prancer, in the 13th round, for Carter's sixth victory in seven title fights...
...take three or four hours each, or less. Accordingly, your statement about "five hour wonders" has no application here, Indeed, a man who needs five hours on one of these papers to achieve a B is scarcely to be regarded as a bull artist, but as a conscientious plodder. Five hours of solid work would also go a long way toward completion of one of the 1,000 word papers in certain other courses which require no research. Longer papers would take proportionately longer. Some of the longest might require most of a student's time for a number...
...careers-you sigh nostalgically that today's generation has no adventurous, imaginative lads ready to seek the weird heights, far away from the stereotyped big-company jobs. Well, your . . . generation has substituted oafish earnestness and the plodder's mentality for ability, brilliance, drive and talent . . . After all, it's easier to take the plodding, army-like promotions and security of big companies with two outings a year . . . live in a little house in the suburbs with a wife in Peck & Peck tweeds who knows all about zinnias and planned parenthood, and have two dirty-faced moppets playing...