Word: thanklessness
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Clark said he still resented the "yoo-hoo" incident of two years ago, when Lear disciplined the 35th Division's (Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska) Quartermaster regiment. But there was more to the grudge. After the 1941 maneuvers Lear had the thankless job of overhauling his command, and one of the heads to roll was that of 61-year-old Major General Ralph E. Truman of Missouri, cousin of Missouri's junior Senator Harry Truman. Statesman Clark denounced Ben Lear from the Senate floor...
...pretty young things; none of Hollywood's starlets can come within a whoop and a holler of her perfection. McCrea, whose "hand-somest pair of masculine legs" are revealed in all their pristine splendor for feminine onlookers, is strong and silent surpassingly. Bennett is good--surprisingly good in a thankless role. But the honors must go to Charles Coburn, whose portraiture of an elderly busybody is convulsingly funny while it ties the picture together. The scene in which McCrea gets his arms around Miss Arthur after five minutes of trying exceeds Hays' Office standards by a wide enough margin...
Such posts are among the most unhappy, thankless and lonely in the U.S. Army. They are manned each by a few men who live in remote Chinese villages, seeing no one but Chinese for months on end, receiving mail sporadically, eating food that hopeful Chinese cooks believe to be done up American style...
...correct your statement to the effect that I have taken an active stand "against Mussolini and Italy." Against Mussolini, yes. Against Italy, no. Mussolini is not Italy. Whoever during these last twenty years has had a share in the thankless task of fighting Mussolini while American bankers, cardinals, archbishops, bishops, university presidents, college professors, journalists and lecturers were praising him to the skies, did not stand against Italy but revindicated the rights and the honor of the Italian people against Mussolini and his brainless admirers...
...ship or not to ship, we try and try to concentrate on how to solve a mess treasure's messes, and how to set up housekeeping for Lulubelle Noble and her Lieutenant Commander. Privately, we're already feeling a little apologetic towards our instructors to whom will fall the thankless job of correcting those final masterpieces of ours. We did so want to leave a good impression, and then look what happens! Even if nobody but BuPers ever gets a look-in in what we wrote about civilian payrolls and stock ledger cards, we'll never fell quite easy about...