Word: thanklessness
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...performance in the show, looking so lovely that, by Hollywood standards, she wouldn't have to act at all. John Rand '43 plays her amusingly inarticulate suitor. When these two are on the stage, the play is what Behrman intended it to be. Adele Thane does well in a thankless part, and the setting is unusually effective...
...Fighting French had a tougher, more thankless job. From the Vichyfrench administration they had inherited two headaches: food scarcities, caused by a year's British blockade, and a Syrian mistrust of anyone who spoke French. For the first headache the British supplied an antidote in shipments of wheat, rice, coffee. For the second headache General Catroux had a prescription: a promise of post-war independence. But to President Attasi the Fighting French were political nobodies; he refused to negotiate with them. Ousting Attasi and his ministers, Catroux named as president a Syrian whose chief virtue was his willingness...
James M. Landis made public last week his second formal report on the thankless job he took over last February-running the Office of Civilian Defense. Six months ago he had been gaunt; now he was haggard. But after those six months of dogged work, in an office which last winter housed the worst of all Washington's administrative messes, he could report some accomplishments. OCD was now functioning up to the full measure of its authority, advising State and city defense councils how to combat gas, destruction, fire, panic, and giving them the necessary material...
...wartime even more than peacetime, Ordnance is a tough and thankless assignment. Though armaments production is moving faster than ever before, such mammoth problems as priorities remain unsolved and unsolvable. Which come first-airplanes or tanks, anti-aircraft guns or artillery...
...Power to Borrow. Sooner or later taxes become intolerable. But borrowing raises a new worry. With the national debt ($62.3 billions) already within easy hail of the limit ($65 billions), Chairman Doughton has the thankless job of asking Congress to raise the limit to $125 billions. Problem: not whether to borrow, but from whom...