Word: thanklessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game plan had gone perfectly. USU's impregnable front line had defended Whittier with pugnacious and unbudging loyalty, bringing USU two titles in four years. Week after week the unsung pugilists of the offensive line did the thankless dirty work in that no-man's land between the lines, and USU won big combining the talents of its crafty quarterback with a cagey and seemingly airtight wall of protection. In 1968 they brought USU its first championship in eight years, edging Minnesota, 43-42, in the frantic November title game, after having squandered a big early lead. Four years later...
...Steiger appear as the opposing patriarchs, Ryan looking stunned, Steiger wallowing in mean ingless excess, a puppet dedicated to self-parody. Jeff Bridges, as a sensitive son, is decent enough- a triumph under the circumstances-and a newcomer named Season Hubley is something more than that. In the thankless role of a teen-age girl who is spirited off by the Steiger clan, she is fresh, sexy and very sprightly...
...chairlady is elected in each shop to hear and act on day-to-day grievances. She is expected to call in the union business agent, the union's representative to the employers, if she cannot resolve a problem with an employer. It is a frustrating and thankless job. Chairladies often feel powerless, and call in the business agent before taking any action. Then they blame the business agent's insensitivity to their complaints and his apparent friendliness with the employer...
...York Nuclear Holocaust." (laughter). That's apropos of nothing we've been through a lot of decades tonight and I have the rather thankless task of talking about the decade that everybody here knows best, so I'm going to try to make this short and selective. There are a lot of things that can be said about The Crimson in the sixties and there are a lot of people in this room who are perfectly well equipped to say them so it anybody has any challenges I'm open to this. It seems to me that one thing that...
...willful acquiescence in violations of your own rules will make it more likely that the courts will accept jurisdiction in the case). Let me be clear that the fault, as I see it, lies not with the Rogers Committee (who have had to carry out an unpleasant, long and thankless job) but with the procedures that have governed their work. (Let me also state in passing what should be obvious: I am most anxious for a speedy resolution of this appeal; the delay up to now--more than a year and a half have passed since I filed my "brief...