Word: thanklessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writing out of personal pique. I've had no connection with the film in question, and this is not the occasion for me to discuss the many virtues of the picture or the unique talent and towering stature of Brando as an artist. Besides, it would be a thankless task to attempt a discussion on this level with an unfeeling, culturally murderous fool. I repeat: I've had enough...
...these matches, Orville Freeman, 44, displays qualities useful to any U.S. Secretary of Agriculture-an all-out combativeness coupled with the ability to lose, mutter "Aw, shucks" and return to the fray. For Freeman's job is the most thankless in the U.S. Government. Freeman's predecessor, Republican Ezra Taft Benson, called it a "monster" and a "sordid mess." For 30 years, the Federal Government has been ineffectually wrestling with the ever bigger surpluses produced by U.S. farmers. In the process, the Agriculture Department has spent many billions of dollars, piled up huge stocks of surplus farm products...
...really do anything wrong as AID's director-but neither, by Kennedy's lights, did he do anything very right. Before Hamilton, nine men served as foreign aid chiefs since the start of the Marshall Plan in 1948,* and most of them found the job frustrating and thankless...
...nominate James Meredith, of course; for a difficult, thankless, but necessary task, accomplished with consummate dignity and inspiring courage...
Before taking the thankless job of running Britain's rattling railways, genial but tough Richard Beeching raised a public storm last year by insisting that the government match the salary that he got as technical director of Imperial Chemical Industries: $67,000. That was 2½ times what his predecessor got and much higher than the Prime Minister's pay ($28,000), but Beeching's principles opposed a comedown. Beeching, now 49, may be worth much more than that to the railways, which ran a crashing $252 million in the red last year...