Word: thanklessness
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...that saw several valiant attempts at clarifying the gloomy science of economics, Robert L. Heilbroner scored a popular triumph in The Worldly Philosophers. He made the ordinarily dusty trip from Adam Smith to Karl Marx to John Keynes as clear and straight as anyone who ever took up the thankless job. Another popularizer, and a very practiced old hand at the game. Will Durant, showed up with The Renaissance, the fifth fat volume of his story of civilization. As usual, Author Will brought down upon himself the buts and ifs of scholars, but did the period up in a sprightly...
...Angeles Rams win the 1951 championship. Most of the film's football action is supplied by exciting newsreel clips of Hirsch running wild against various Big Ten and pro teams. But off the playing field things slow down to a walk. Newcomer Joan Vohs plays the thankless role of sweetheart and wife, while Veteran Lloyd Nolan tries to hold the film together as Hirsch's high-school coach and most loyal...
That was as he wanted it; Eden prefers the reality of the Foreign Office to the grander-titled but thankless anonymity of odd-job man to Churchill. Either way, the aging (56) bright young man of Torydom is still at the top of the list of prospective heirs to failing Prime Minister Churchill...
...forever stealing other chaps' "tuck" (cakes, cream puffs, tarts, toffee). He is hopeless at athletics, can't seem to spell ("I wood have toled you myself but you wood not lissen . . ."), is perpetually in a "digamma," and is constantly delivering such Bunterisms as "How sharper than a thankless child it is to have a toothless "serpent...
...Federal Civil Defense Administration has had the thankless job of trying to make civilians take precautions against the effects of atomic bombing. Civilians have not been responsive, chiefly because of a widespread conviction that no reasonable precautions will do much good. This attitude might be changed by persistent, frank discussion of the ways of atom bombs. Last week FCDA began distributing an elaborate booklet called Operation Doorstep, which is less than frank...