Word: thanklessness
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...again in Flanders, churned up by last week's heavy rains. The Nazis were putting up stubborn battles for the Channel ports-hopeless, losing battles in which soldiers would die quite as definitively as in glorious victories. In short, the reconquest of the Channel coast was an ugly, thankless job. But the Canadians, whose job it was, were actually happy...
...concert world, snapped him up as one of the chief maestros of the Judson Radio Program Corp., later a part of the Columbia Broadcasting System. Three years afterward, when Toscanini backed out of a two-weeks' engagement with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Impresario Judson offered the thankless job to Ormandy. Said Judson: "I think it is absolute suicide." Ormandy clicked at once. Immediate result: he was appointed chief conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony. After five years in Minneapolis, Ormandy went to Philadelphia, eventually succeeded Stokowski as chief conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, one of the four big U.S. conducting jobs...
...problem given Rommel was tough and thankless, but just the thing for a former genius trying a comeback. The Partisans under Tito (Josip Broz) then held much of the country in patches of varying strength. They occupied Split (Spalato), the most important Dalmatian port, and many of the islands off the Adriatic coast from Fiume to Dubrovnik (Ragusa). The Germans were on the defensive everywhere, attacked from all sides...
...Unbloodied Workers. To his little-known, unbloodied workers, the Staff Officers, Eisenhower recently said: "The job is a hard and thankless one. You will not go down in the pages of history. But we have shown and will continue to show the world one thing-that the Allies can fight under one command and as one nation...
Fundamentally it's just so much stuff with some grand cooperation from the office to help you along. Besides, look at the fun you'll have (oh yeah!) seriously, it's far from a thankless job, and we think it a necessary activity, so put in your bid now. Two can probably handle it easily and pass Disbursing too. Adieu...