Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This diplomatic spit & polish was the work of a tireless Frenchwoman, Mme. Simone Blanchard, who had been secretary at the Embassy when Ambassador Bullitt pulled out in 1941. She kept the place ready for instant reoccupancy...
...chunky N.A.L. President George Theodore Baker, 43, the new route looked mighty good. In 1929 he had begun operating a charter-and-barnstorming company near Chicago; five years later switched to St. Petersburg, Fla. There National's assets consisted of tireless George Baker and a rickety, single-engined Ryan cabin plane which he flew from cow pastures at Jacksonville to empty lots at Daytona Beach...
...Trim, hearty Legionnaire Stambaugh, a successful Fargo lawyer and long-time advocate of U.S. participation in world affairs, has invested in 53 red-white-& -blue billboards for a high-pressure campaign. But the grain growers and stockmen who cast most of North Dakota's votes listen to his tireless speechmaking with stony faces. They regard him as a city slicker backed by city slickers...
Next to Butcher, Ike's closest colleague is clever, tireless General Beedle Smith, whom Eisenhower baldly describes as the best chief of staff in the world. It is with Smith that Ike holds his longest daily sessions on the progress of the invasion. Until he can move to the Continent, Ike will probably also see a good deal of Winston Churchill, with whom he has recently been lunching regularly twice a week at No. 10 Downing St. The two get along splendidly. Churchill calls Eisenhower "Ike." The general calls Churchill "Sir," or "Prime...
...more than 15,000 in three weeks, an impressive proof of the swiftness of Allied attack, the disruption of German outfits. In Washington, Secretary Stimson jubilated over the performance of the new divisions of the U.S. II Corps who had never before been in battle. He attributed their "tireless energy" and "freshness and vigor" to the fact that casualties were immediately replaced by fresh troops to maintain the corps at full strength. Later it was announced that among the reinforcements were the U.S. 85th and 88th Divisions-not only battlegreen but entirely composed of draft levies. They distinguished themselves...