Word: thanklessness
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...thankless job of steering the nation along the thorny path of recovery might fall upon the Catholic party, which favored the return of King Leopold III from exile. In pious, conservative Flanders, mottoes like "Wij eischen onzen Koning terug" (We want our King back) suddenly appeared on house walls. But in leftish, French-speaking Wallonia, an all-Catholic government might cause strikes and riots...
...with a nod of decision and a hurried resumption of his path toward Lehman Hall. The early morning boulevardier is Aldrich Durant, Business Manager of the University and his invisible colleague might well be the spiritual embodiment of the Harvard Corporation, which has saddled this shrewd Yankee with a thankless job that has often caused him agitation of the soul...
Harvard Square consumers are, by and large, either teachers or students. Teachers, whose salaries are fixed, and students, most of whom are essaying the thankless task of stretching sixty-five dollars over thirty days. The type of consumer, in other words, who is particularly hard hit by rising prices. In the case of the student-veterans, most of their savings are represented by war bonds, whose real value would vanish in any long term inflation. A successfully conducted buyers' strike in Harvard Square would give heart to the millions of other consumers of the country who stand helplessly by while...
...seemingly insurmountable problems." He would need all his aggressiveness to keep his new job from becoming an insurmountable problem, complicated as it was by the investigations of five congressional committees. In the face of this, Washington politicos were most impressed by Littlejohn's courage in taking on the thankless job. Quipped one: "I admire his guts, but not his judgment...
...thankless task of covering SHAEF, he frequently clashed with the censors. He had the energy to get around on his own, the imagination to infuse official communiqués with color and meaning...