Word: thanklessness
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...than the ethereal fluting of the prairie lark is a sow's "pumping," the regular ugh, ugh, ugh, which means that the litter has discovered how to suckle and that the sow, heaving over with a sigh to expose her batteries of teats, has taken on the thankless task. In a fortnight the pig population on the Kuester farm may bounce from about 40 to something like...
...Thankless OPAsters...
...difficult job, it is distasteful, it is thankless. But in that job many people find as I did a new sense of community responsibility...
Perhaps by giving two thankless jobs in a row to Norman Armour (who was said to have been eager for the Paris assignment), the State Department had used poor diplomacy toward one of its ablest diplomats. At a time when the foreign service desperately needed good men, it could have used him longer...
...Pearl Harbor Committee's mild, punctilious Counsel William DeWitt Mitchell, who served ably and loyally under Republican Presidents Hoover and Coolidge, could no longer hide his impatience. In quiet anger, he announced that he and his assistants would quit their thankless jobs at year...