Word: thanklessly
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...developed rump twisted in the tap dance: her eyes had a sidelong, searching coquetry." That passage cost more than $12,000 in libel damages. Greene and the editors learned in court what Alice Faye had found on the set: to be an adult around Shirley Temple "was a pretty thankless job. You had to work to hold your...
...strides easily among movie cliches. His gift is to play them as if they're all new and all true. And this time he has a cast to lend them flesh and nuance. Quaid creates a genuine pathetic hero, first exuding charm, then marketing it. And Hutton, in the thankless role of Gavin's conscience and Babs' would-be lover, makes his clammy patience and docile come-ons darned near authentic...
...last August, the beefy former Siberian party chief felt secure enough to engage Gorbachev supporters on the Politburo in a slinging match over party ideology, his special field. In a move that seemed designed to isolate a Gorbachev rival without firing him outright, Ligachev was transferred to the thankless post of overseeing the Soviet Union's troubled agricultural sector. It remained unclear whether he would retain his No. 2 Politburo ranking. Demoted...
Brinkley also salutes Leon Henderson and Chester Bowles, the two largely unheralded heads of the Office of Price Administration--probably the most thankless job in Washington during the war years. Though despised by every lobbying group that found its request for special privileges denied and by must of Congress, Henderson and Bowles managed to enforce some badly-needed rationing and price control programs on a nation that had just emerged from the Depression and was reluctant for another period of sacrifice and scarcity...
Back in the '60s, Jackson was treated as a Johnny-come-lately to the civil rights movement, given minor and thankless tasks. As a result of David Garrow's important book Bearing the Cross, we now know that the civil rights movement was internally riven by the time Jackson joined it. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was being shoved out of its original nest in Atlanta and was meeting resistance from established black preachers in Chicago. Jackson, who was not even a minister yet (and therefore less of a threat) was given Operation Breadbasket to operate on indeterminate territory partway...