Word: thanklessly
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...sane men endure such a thankless job as officiating? It is not the money, they say, but the thrill of being in the game. Says N.F.L. Referee Bernie Ulman, a sporting-goods salesman who, like many pro officials, is a former college-football player: "It's the one good way of staying with football after you're too old to play...
Nixon and Humphrey have both assigned volunteer experts to the thankless task of turning out thoughtful if largely unread position papers on all sorts of topics: black capitalism, the problems of aging, rural redevelopment. But most are aimed at small special-interest groups, and if the press reports them, such pronouncements usually wind up in puny paragraphs between the obituaries and the recipes. Above all, candidates give short shrift to many issues because the people themselves are uninterested. Talk about the gold outflow or trade protectionism makes audiences nod and yawn. It is a political axiom, and one of democracy...
...moral courage requisite to making that awesome police decision-to kill or not to kill.* In California, one study showed that 50% of one police force (Sausalito) had the same psychological profile as doctors and ministers. If most cops were not highly motivated, how could they stand the thankless job of doing society's dirty work...
Barbara Ferris manages her ultimate put-down with a nice poignancy, and Werner plays the self-indulgent artist with the insouciance of a Habsburg bastard. Virginia Maskell, who died last January, is exceptionally beautiful and understated in the thankless role of the wife who is called upon to ask her rival during an improbable three-cornered confrontation in a restaurant, "Do you love music...
Angela Lansbury executes the thankless role of Delilah's spear-wielding sister, looking like a porcelain Valkyrie and apparently regarding with doubt her future as a blonde bombshell. Victor Mature, who plays Samson, is quite fat and quite bad, but he pulls down a wicked temple...