Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Adolf Cardinal Bertram, 86, outspoken anti-Nazi Archbishop of Breslau and dean of the German Catholic hierarchy, whose tireless resistance to Hitler's "neopaganism" was climaxed last March in his defiance of orders to evacuate Breslau before the advancing Russians; presumably in Breslau. His death left the College of Cardinals with 40 members-fewest in 144 years...
...continued to use Hopkins' knowledge and counsel. It was Hopkins, more than anyone else, who saved the San Francisco conference from a precipitous breakup (TIME, June 1). But Harry Truman also knew that Harry Hopkins would eventually leave. He wrote warmly in reply ("I know how much your tireless energy had to do with the carrying on of the war in all parts of the globe"), and that was that...
...room is a large studio containing sculpture in progress: a huge classical woman's head and a shepherd, also over lifesize, carrying a lamb. I had barely time to glance at these when Picasso appeared. His large dark eyes, which dominate his face, have a brilliant look of tireless alertness, characteristic of animals rather than...
Last week balding, tireless Correspondent Lochner, 58, was hard at it. His latest stories seemed as Sax Rohmerish as the "informed" reports that stream incessantly from the rumor factories of Stockholm, Lisbon and Berne. But many a U.S. editor, recalling Lochner's Pulitzer prestige, gingerly played them deadpan. Sample Lochner...
...tireless reporter, sensitive to the sights, sounds, horror and humor of war. His cables reflected that sensitiveness. In the Kwajalein cleanup his eyes had caught the sight of a dead Jap's bearded waxen face sprinkled with the rubble of a wrecked pillbox, on Leyte the pathos of G.I.s celebrating Christmas by decorating twigs with Christmas wrappings and empty cigaret packs...