Word: thanklessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long persisted in the agency. He lost face on the New Frontier when Congress slashed the President's $5 billion foreign aid request to $3.9 billion. Hamilton emerged frustrated-but in that he was in complete company with his predecessors in what has become known as "the most thankless job in Washington...
...guilt. "I dreamed I was standing up in church without any clothes on," she recalled, "and all the people there were lying at my feet on the floor, and I walked naked, with a sense of freedom, being careful not to step on anyone." Years later, after a hopeless, thankless, adolescent marriage to an aircraft worker, she posed nude for Christendom's most famous calendar and from that moment on, she was the only blonde in the world...
Even worse, Ribicoff found himself outside the President's inner circle of confidants. It was the technicians of the Cabinet-McNamara, Dillon, Rusk-who had the President's ear, but they rarely saw fit to question his political judgment. So Abe was reduced to the dull and thankless job of administering a department...
BIGGEST share of the credit for France's settlement with the F.L.N. goes to Louis Joxe, 60, the witty, wily diplomat who is Charles de Gaulle's Minister of State for Algerian Affairs. In November 1960 when he was handed the thankless task of ending the war, Joxe based his strategy on the theory that negotiating with the embittered, intractable representatives of Algeria's provisional government was not so much a diplomatic assignment as "guerrilla warfare, transposed to the political plane...
...nominally independent colleges. While finding ways to accept more students, especially from New York's submerged Negro and Puerto Rican population, he must maintain City's traditional standards. Withal, he must develop stiff doctoral programs and research that match the best in the U.S. He took the thankless job, says Everett, "because I would have always wondered why if I hadn't. It's the most interesting higher education job in the country...