Word: thanklessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sage in Motley. What has Brook done with this ravening epic of the thankless daughters and their wild old fool of a father? He has had to cut it to prevent it from being grindingly long. The cuts have weakened the cumulative impact, and in specific instances the weakness can be felt. A diminished interplay between Lear and his Fool (Jack...
...Perfect Martini. Experienced Wodehouse readers will remain cheerfully secure in the knowledge that Jeeves will cleverly spring Bertie from these cataclysms. So unique is the Wodehouse brand of humor, however, that to describe it is as thankless and bootless as describing the taste of the perfect martini. Wodehouse (pronounced Woodhouse) can be compared to no other novelist, living or dead. His literary ancestor, instead, is the Roman dramatist Plautus, and, like Plautus, he is the manufacturer of a thousand comically crossed connections...
...Final Solution. As the bugs now metamorphose from engorged caterpillars to egg-laying moths, federal and state agencies are stepping up efforts to stop the pests "Spread."Inspectors face the thankless task of searching campers and trailers for gypsy moth eggs. Scientists hope to put out synthetic sex lures that attract libidinous male moths to traps and doom. When the lures were tested in Mississippi, says William H. Gillespie, chairman of the National Gypsy Moth Advisory Council in Charleston, W. Va., "all the male moths did was fly around and frustrate themselves. They never did find any gals to procreate...
Like many campus newspapers, the Stanford Daily has found that covering radical violence and student demonstrations is a thankless trip through no man's land. One Daily photographer was threatened by radicals for taking their pictures; two days later he was Maced by police. Recently, Palo Alto police, armed with a warrant, searched the Daily's files in a fruitless hunt for pictures of the protesters...
Haviland had one of the more thankless jobs: arranging the seating for the status-conscious laborites. There were 1,100 tables spread over 31 acres of bare concrete floor. Haviland dodged the worst of the problem by parceling out blocks of tables to the locals and councils to let them wrangle it out themselves. The size of the blocks was a telling reflection of Chicago labor's power distribution-the Teamsters commanded 275 tables, while the building trades got 190 and the steelworkers...