Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Continuing his galloping gander at Europe, tireless Tourist Harry Truman returned to France and Gay Paree, where he made a brief speech on the stresses of the U.S. presidency, indicating that a young man should occupy the White House. How young is young? Truman did not say, except to reaffirm that he, at 72, knows his own "running-for-office days are over." Two days later, in Brussels, he made it clear that he considers Dwight D. Eisenhower young enough at 65 to run for reelection. Asked by a Belgian newsman whether the Democrats would welcome a decision...
After outdistancing his entourages in a fortnight's dashing about Italy, tireless Tourist Harry S. (for Swinomish) Truman raced on to Austria, where he was soon ensconced in the third row of a Salzburg concert hall. As Music Lover Truman watched approvingly, Conductor Bernhard Paumgartner struck up the band, then quickly stopped the music while guards kicked out a movie cameraman who had ignored a signal to go away from Truman territory. At a dinner that followed, the former President, never averse to giving hell even to the press when it nettles him, outspokenly applauded the maestro...
...schoolteacher who is tireless, vigilant and indifferent to big red apples was on exhibit at London's Physical Society. The teacher is electronic and the creation of two young Cambridge scientists, Physicist McKinnon ) Wood and Psychologist Gordon Pask, under contract with Solartron Electronic Group Ltd. Designed for teaching such routine skills as typing and running radar equipment, the electronic teacher gives patient, individual attention...
...shot came to call on me and told afterward what was said . . . he didn't get in any more." After a quick change to street clothing, the Trumans went to Sunday services at 77-year-old St. Paul's American Episcopal Church. This week, tireless Tourist Truman was eager to be off for Venice, where, heard he, "the streets are flooded, and I want to see this for myself...
...took him to New England in the summer of 1946 to play in the old Northern League. Roberts balked often out of sheer awkwardness, fell down fielding bunts, was so eager he threw before he got the catcher's sign. But Fisher saw things worth working on-a tireless arm, an indomitable will to win. An ex-major-leaguer (with the New York Yankees and Cincinnati), Fisher put the finishing touches...