Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Former winners turn out in their bright livery (now red instead of Doggett's orange) and proud 12-oz. silver arm badges to cock critical eyes from official launches. The contestants themselves train for months. This year Ken Collins, 21, a tireless lighterman from Bermondsey, sprinted into an early lead as they slid past Southwark Bridge and Saint Paul's. Behind him came Bob Gibbs, Jack Smith, Ken Green, Dave Reed and Malcolm Troubridge. Still in front when he passed the finish line at Chelsea after 27 min. 20 sec. of rowing, he was only eleven seconds ahead...
Right from the start Althea grimly set her lips and set out to play a man's game. Lean and agile (5 ft. 10¾ in., 138 lbs.), she sprinted about the court on tireless legs, belted her serves with unladylike gusto. For one giddy moment, all England hoped that a strapping (5 ft. 11 in., 155 lbs.) English schoolgirl of 16 named Christine Truman could stop Althea in the semifinals. Christine seemed to some to be the best British prospect in 20 years, but Althea was not impressed. "I'll gobble her up," she said coolly...
...concession to manage and modernize Spain's sputtering national telephone system, went on to set up 33 international manufacturing and research facilities. They were big enough by 1928 to acquire the Mackay companies, including Postal Telegraph & Cable Corp. (eventually merged with Western Union). Until 1930, Sosthenes' tireless negotiating made I.T. & T. grow throughout the world, spread the company into Argentina, Australia, Belgium, China, England, France, Italy, Japan, Norway, Rumania...
...ruler of the largest state in Malaya, is a man as huge (6 ft. i in., 200-plus Ibs.) as his name, and as perenially active as the tongue that tries to pronounce it. An inveterate and skillful marksman, golfer, tennis and polo player, he is easily the most tireless partygoer in all Pahang; in 1956, accompanied by a troupe of shapely dancing girls, he literally danced the Communist menace out of his corner of the Malayan jungle by throwing one rousing village party after another for villagers throughout his sultanate. He also made friends by promising "more roads, schools...
Four times in the past 19 years, Austin Attorney Ralph W. (for Webster) Yarborough had glad-handed his way across Texas in tireless battles for state office (attorney general, governor). Four times he failed-and before the last time former Governor Allan Shivers began to call him a "three-time loser." Last week Texas Liberal Yarborough, 53, took a fifth swing, this time at the 21-month, unexpired term in the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Price Daniel-who beat Yarborough for governor last year. Candidate Yarborough hit a home...