Word: thanklessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WORK. By begging Lane Kirkland to stay out, cutting caucuses, and de-emphasizing the Fairness Commission, the Democrats alienate some of their best activists (you know, the people who do that thankless phone bank stuff), lose some of their best contributors, and end up with even less of a program and fewer leaders than they had before. This certainly will not bring the blue-collar worker back...
Armstrong has become a penalty killer for the Crimson, a thankless task that is perfectly suited to his dogged determination...
...Gromyko, there could be no greater sin than a casual approach to one's duties. His reputation had earned him the nickname Grom, the Russian word for thunder. One victim of his thunderbolts was Rolland Timerbayev, a senior political officer in the U.N. mission, who had the thankless task of supervising the mission's move from Park Avenue to East 67th Street. When Gromyko was shown the completed work that autumn, he spent more than half an hour stuck between floors in a faulty elevator. Finally freed, he decided that Timerbayev should have a new career...
...book, he was so theoretically is a matter best known to himself." But Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal provoked an attack on both the theorists of art for art's sake and the poet: "He went in search of corruption, and the ill-conditioned jade proved a thankless muse...
...basis. "He did not set out to make a clean sweep, and he did not get rid of everyone that Sierra and Friends of the Earth would like us to get rid of," says Kallman. "He is required under law to consider all constituencies and it is, accordingly, a thankless job." Interior officials say they hope to be able to sit down with representatives of the Sierra Club and the Friends of the Earth "to talk constructively about differences." That dialogue may be burdened by an additional problem, though: the Sierra Club and the Friends of the Earth have endorsed...