Word: thanklessness
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...Supreme Court he surprised everyone by his capacity for work, startled no one by his stubborn insistence on interpreting the will of Congress as the law of the land. As War Mobilizer he had a thankless job which gave him all of the grief of running a war and none of the glory. He stuck it out as long as he could...
...Francisco he and his secretariat of 300 (mostly Americans) will have the drudging, thankless clerk's job of copying, translating and publishing, running the thousands of paper-clip and pencil chores of an international meeting.* But Alger Hiss will be an important figure there. As Secretary-General, managing the agenda, he will have a lot to say behind the scenes about who gets the breaks...
...carloads of desks, 400 typewriters with French, Spanish and Russian keyboards, cartons of pens, pencils, binders and ink bottles. Police departments in New York, Chicago and New Orleans picked detectives to prowl San Francisco looking for New York, Chicago and New Orleans crooks. San Francisco hotelmen sweated at the thankless job of shooing guests...
...well-qualified expert last week took on the thankless job of defending commercial "plugs." The unloved commercials' aggressive defender was Ralph Smith, general manager of Duane Jones Co., an ad agency that puts some 2,000 commercials on the air every week-mostly for soap and patent medicines. In a letter to the New York Times, Smith asserted "Persons who complain about commercials are, as a rule, disgustingly healthy or so strongly fortified financially that grocery bills are no problem. Frankly, commercials are not written for such as these...
...shek at a tragically low point in China's fortunes. The Chungking Government, after seven years of war, was teetering on the brink of economic and military disaster. With the recall to Washington of General Joe Stilwell and Ambassador Clarence E. Gauss, Diplomat Hurley took over the thankless, monumental job of watching out for the best interests of both the U.S. and Ally China. It was not Pat's first hard chore...