Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three. Created at the Moscow Conference (Hull, Eden, Molotov), the Advisory Commission began work last December in London's barnlike Lancaster House, overlooking flat, shady Green Park. The commissioners: Lincolnesque U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant; cautious, deadpan Russian Ambassador Fedor Gusev; the British Foreign Office's lanky, tireless Sir William Strang...
...last October Bose had worked his way to Singapore via Tokyo. He proclaimed a "Provisional Government of India," set about recruiting an "army of liberation," was tireless in his praise for Jap assistance in the task. When the time came to threaten Allied communications with southeast Asia, the Japs dubbed Bose a general and took him along with his "army of liberation." Through the heavy folds of British censorship in New Delhi came word that Bose's forces numbered some 3,000 men; others, freer to speak the truth, guess that he may have as many...
Thereafter the Cline idea put forth leaves and flowers. When Olsen & Johnson whipped out water pistols and sprayed the audience, the tireless 200 whipped out water pistols and doused the stage. At that point someone rushed a Martini on a tray to aisle-seated W. C. Fields. Quipped Fields loudly: "I hope this didn't come from the little boys' room." Every ten minutes another Martini arrived. Then...
...famed "Five" (the others: Mussorgsky, Balakireff, Borodin, Cui) who in the '60s weaned Russian music from the influence of German Romanticism and Italian opera. He was also the author of important treatises on harmony and orchestration, the teacher of a whole generation of other Russian composers, the tireless performer of countless editorial and ghostwriting jobs, and a powerful propagandist for Russia's great composer, Modest Mussorgsky (Boris Godunov, Pictures At an Exhibition...
...first picture last week of Durban Harbor's Perla Siedle (see cut), onetime Wagnerian soprano whose tireless waterfront singing to Allied convoys has made her one of South Africa's great wartime personalities (TIME, Nov. 15). Perla, known affectionately to thousands of soldiers and sailors as Durban's Lady in White, sings God Bless America for Yanks, There'll Always Be an England for Tommies, Waltzing Matilda for Aussies...