Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...task yet lies before the United Nations that time and tireless effort cannot accomplish. Time, however, is grudgingly granted by a people curiously expectant of modern miracles. The impatient perfectionist, continually frustrated by examples of power politics, cannot long avoid cynicism. He counts for naught the progress made when the family of nations agreed to bring their haggling within the confines of the council chamber. Exhorting the deadliness of the atomic bomb, he summons fear to promote his crusade for "real" world government...
...hitched his wagon to the Generalissimo's star, won the rising leader's trust by tireless intelligence work for the Kuomintang Army. In 1934 he organized China's Bureau of Investigation & Statistics. In time it became one of the world's biggest undercover agencies. It planted operatives from Bali to Burma, from Singapore to Sinkiang. It specialized in espionage and counterespionage; it kept watch on Communists, foreigners. Behind the Japanese lines its eyes were flower girls, coolies and ricksha men. In the most lurid Fu Manchu tradition, it reported to Tai Li with invisible ink messages...
Ravaged, still-disputed Manchuria was the ugliest wound that would have to heal before the pattern of Chinese unity could be complete. To heal other sore spots in Shansi, Honan and Hupeh provinces, tireless U.S. Peacemaker George Marshall toured North China, working in the difficult lower political levels to win practical realization of the military truce he and China's top leaders had arranged. Amid his stops was isolated Yenan, capital of Chinese Communism. There he remained overnight, caught cold watching an elaborate performance of drum dancers and folk singers in an icy auditorium, had a long talk with...
More than anything else, Hamilton Holt is a fine person, a lovable man. His tireless work has made college possible for many needy students. In the five years prior to this war, at least one-third of the Rollins student body received some form of financial aid. Rollins (and peace) have been his life work. Few men have labored so selflessly...
...hard-shelled fact in The Egg and I. Under Author MacDonald's whimsical (and sometimes Rabelaisian) threnody is the consciousness that Bob, tireless, devoted and efficient, was patiently pioneering a successful farm out of some fallen buildings and overgrown fields. He became one of the best chicken farmers in the countryside, and after two years was making so much profit that he could think of buying a bigger & better farm...