Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Germans, Western occupiers and Russian antagonists have all since learned to know how that lone Cologne holdout felt. To the occupiers, Adenauer has proved a rugged bargainer-tireless, insistent, all but immovable. "We are not an African tribe," he snapped one day, "but a Central European nation proud of its country." On another occasion: "It was the German army and not the German people that capitulated, and this the world had better remember." One day in 1949, when Adenauer visited U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy, the two men fell into a Gaston & Alphonse routine at the door. "After...
Across West Germany, tireless, graven-faced Konrad Adenauer campaigned bluntly on the issue of United Europe. His main opponents, the Socialists, bluntly campaigned against it. Germans had a clear-cut choice. "Our country," said Adenauer, "is the point of tension between two world blocs . . . Long ago I made a great decision: we belong to the West and not to the East . . . Isolation is an idea created by fools. It would mean that the U.S. would withdraw its troops from Europe. Ladies and gentlemen, the moment that happens, Germany will become a satellite...
...posed a tougher problem for the social workers than for the doctors. She had cancer of the cervix. She was hundreds of miles from home, and needed a place near by to live for three months while she took regular X-ray treatments as an outpatient. Mrs. Edna Wagner, tireless and efficient director of social service at Anderson Hospital, shook her head: there was no suitable housing for such a patient in segregated Houston. But the woman had a son living in the city. Against her own better judgment, Mrs. Wagner told the patient to stay with...
...tireless comic-strip crusade against criminals with brutal habits and oddly shaped heads, Detective Dick Tracy has had an invaluable mechanical ally: "The two-way wrist radio." Its secret communicating power, unknown to the bad men, constantly helps bail Tracy and his friends out of trouble. In the current installment, for instance, it may prove very useful to a wealthy gentleman named Uncle Kincaid Plenty. Locked up in a TNT plastic vest with a time-bomb mechanism, Uncle Kincaid is being taken for a ride by a knife-wielding criminal named 3-D Magee. But the sounds coming over Kincaid...
...better part of his 84 years, Frank Lloyd Wright, the grand, infuriating and tireless old nautilus of U.S. architecture, has built ever more amazing mansions, put ever vaster domes over such projects as a mortuary in San Francisco, a chapel for Florida Southern College, a laboratory tower for Johnson's Wax. When the Guggenheim Foundation asked him in 1945 to build an art museum for Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue, he designed what might be taken as a monument to himself. It would be shaped, he said, "like the chambered nautilus." The picture gallery would consist...