Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Draft? But to draft F.D.R. looked like an increasingly tough job. The President, tireless Drew Pearson informed the U.S., might want to be exempted on grounds of his indispensability for world peace. "Whether he would be president of a League of United Nations, or American representative on it, is a detail." The main thing, Pearson thought he knew, was that Mr. Roosevelt's next personal Four-Year Plan reached beyond the national scene...
...Helen Dortch Longstreet, 85-year-old widow of Lieut. General James Longstreet, Robert E. Lee's right-hand man at Gettysburg, turned up as a student in "assembly, fabrication and riveting" at a training school in Marietta, Ga. A tireless individualist* Mrs. Longstreet lives alone at a trailer camp, goes to classes every day from 2 to 11 p.m., hopes to be in an assembly line job by next week. She explained simply: "I couldn't stay out of this...
Postwar air transport was also up for action and argument. Winston Churchill's new Lord Privy Seal, restless, tireless, Canadian-born Lord Beaverbrook, this week conducted an informal Empire Air Conference, to lay plans for later, more difficult talks with the U.S. and other rival nations...
...because he had once been a pugilistic blitzkrieg. The flat-faced little boxer was the only fighter ever to hold three titles simultaneously-feather, light and welterweight. For five years it was a near certainty that chocolate-colored Henry Armstrong's opponents would eventually crumble before the inhuman, tireless onslaught of will and pounding fists. Last week at Madison Square Garden, the Armstrong repertory of lethal motions was on display, but the crucial Armstrong hammer was no longer part of the equipment. If it had not been Armstrong, it would have been funny...
...certainly knew his job! By the time he had finished I had something I could really drape that face over." Captain Grindlay from Harvard and the Mayo Clinic appeared. At first he seemed disgruntled to be put under a missionary doctor with native nurses. But he proved an excellent, tireless surgeon and gradually lost his standoffishness...