Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was nothing more to be said. After Mr. Thomas sang I Love You Truly with only one mistake (inserting "cheer" for "tear" in the second line, first stanza), somebody read a poem contributed by tireless California Author Kathleen Norris ("Where have you flown to, bird, in the dawning glory...
...came to Washington, the British Embassy was impregnable to U.S.-reporters. Today, six Ambassadors and 26 years later, its doors are open to them, and they know whom to thank for it. Lewis regarded himself as a guestly parasite on the American press, read it with a cocked and tireless eye, picked its best brains as charmingly as he captivated capital hostesses. He called Dorothy Thompson the discoverer of "perpetual emotion," once rebuffed a girl reporter from Manhattan's PM: "Don't tell me you print just facts. Nobody knows what a fact is." Since 1942 Frank Oliver...
...usual question-"Are you going to make any New Year's resolutions?"-Tireless Pollster George Gallup got the usual answers. The most popular resolutions: 1) to save more money, 2) improve my character, 3) improve my disposition. No. 9: quit drinking...
...public did not sense the meaning of Byrnes's tireless efforts until one August week when five U.S. Army flyers lay dead in a tiny village in the Julian Alps, victims of Marshal Tito's outdated confidence that the U.S. would look the other way. Communist Tito had been a great war hero to the U.S.; overnight he became the focus of U.S. wrath. Byrnes, sitting in a buzzing Conference session at Paris, spent two hours writing Tito a note that told him where he stood with a nation that had learned at last that the price...
...cake made in the form of an atomic underwater explosion [TIME, Nov. 18] gave wide publicity to the unusual views of the Rev. A. Powell Davies, Unitarian pastor of a "fashionable Washington church." As published ... it did a great injustice to Admirals Blandy and Lowry, who have been tireless in their efforts to tell the citizens of the world of the devastating power and insidious poison of the atomic bomb...