Word: thanklessly
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Although Cagney is much better than his thankless role, the real heroes of Captains are Director Michael Curtiz and his five cameramen, who caught the matchless greens and browns of Canada's infinite north-country; the black-and-crimson spit & polish of the Northwest Mounties; the kaleidoscopic carnival of the training field; the silver splash of bushers' planes plopping into lonely lakes; the ominous shine of penguin-bellied bombers groaning up from the Newfoundland shore on their weary way to England...
...owns it. Part of Aniline's troubles (and the Treasury's nervous trigger finger) are due to a jurisdictional fight between the two departments for control of alien properties. That fight will go on until Franklin Roosevelt names an Alien Property Custodian and defines his thankless duties...
...every U.S. city and town, a little group of citizens got to work on a delicate, ticklish, thankless job. They were the new tire-rationing boards, serving without pay, appointed to decide who should get new tires and who should go without...
...query "Who won the war?" the doughboys of World War I had a hoarsely derisive answer: "The M.P.s!" Given the thankless task of watching over troops on leave, rounding up stragglers during battle, the Military Police got in the soldiers' hair as incessantly as the cootie. And they were about as popular...
...Thankless indeed is the job that Fadden inherited. Menzies, who came to power in 1939 as head of the United Australia Party, was forced early in 1940 to form a coalition with the United Country Party to save his Government. Last autumn the coalition's slight majority was cut almost to nothing. Emerging from a set of by-elections in September, the Labor parties, headed by Menzies' personal friend and political enemy, mild, gold-spectacled John Curtin, held as many seats in Parliament as the coalition...