Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British authorities, who had long argued that most Greek Cypriots were weary of EOKA's bloody tactics, the celebrations were a disturbing revelation. Suddenly all Cyprus was a sea of waving Greek flags and photographs of dead EOKA guerrillas. Hour after hour, thousands of tireless voices shouted "EOKA!" and "We have...
...used by the Kin Tartars at the seige of Kaifeng (12321,* they recognize him as tomorrow's man. "Discerning, thinking leader . . . outstanding and extremely tenacious manager ... he has a big project concept" they say, adding that they "have great regard for his motivations." For Ben Schriever is a tireless, able, dedicated, imaginative officer who is respected both as an executive and as an engineer. He has learned in the wind tunnel of the America of the '30s, '40s and '50s the best concepts and best context of his community. "Action," "dynamic" and "capability" are among...
...tireless energy and ability of the German people made this remarkable achievement, but its course was set by cigar-chomping Ludwig Erhard, 60. A Bavarian peasant's son, Erhard rose to power after World War II when the Allies, impressed by his lack of Nazi ties, made him Economic Administrator of the U.S. and British occupation zones. When Allied officers, not so ardent as he for Marktwirtschaft (free enterprise economy), refused to let him end rationing and price control, Erhard slipped into his office one Sunday morning and issued the decree. U.S. General Lucius Clay administered a solemn reproof...
...quitting. Then he began to hear the voice of the people, and found himself regarded as a hero. Shrewdly he called a general election, selflessly offered the British Colonial Office all his shares in the African Continental Bank (the Colonial Office politely declined), and hit the stump. While tireless British colonial officials went into the jungle to persuade 3,000,000 eligible voters to register, and to show them how to cast their ballots, whispers went forth that the tribunal had been an "imperialist plot" to discredit the Nigerian nationalist movement, that Zik had in reality been building a bank...
...Toughened up by energetic devotion to his career as a gentleman farmer, Northrup Knox, 28, of Buffalo, N.Y. and Aiken, S.C., demonstrated an almost tireless skill at the esoteric game of court tennis. After an afternoon's romp on the court at Boston's Tennis and Racquet Club, Knox left longtime (eight years) Champion Alastair Bradley Martin, 42, limp with exhaustion, won the U.S. amateur singles championship...