Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as they have for years, high-powered Hollywood lobbyists were subtly slipping their wares into the screen's magic showcase. With tireless insistency they pushed plugs for automobiles, refrigerators, railroads, soft drinks, rifles, liquor, diamonds, Venetian blinds, cigars...
...organization, as Sherrill and its veteran boss, ubiquitous, tireless General Secretary Samuel McCrea Cavert, are well aware, is not only bigger than ever before, but has a bigger opportunity, and a greater challenge. When the ecumenical movement was getting started, Christianity was suffering from doldrums as well as division. The scientific and secular optimism of the 19th Century seemed to have superseded the faith of our fathers; the future belonged to man, and man was the measure of it. Now things are different...
...Tough, tireless freestylers will open the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming Championships at 7:30 p.m. tonight. The three-day meet will take over the Indoor Athletic Building pool until late Saturday night...
...Wallingford, England home, 90-year-old Dr. William Ralph ("The Gloomy Dean") Inge, famed for his tireless attacks on smug optimism, welcomed some visiting relatives and gave photographers a rare smile of smug satisfaction as he performed a skillful balancing act with his two-week-old twin grandchildren, Nicholas and Caroline...
...college-trained in economics and philosophy, had joined the party in 1936, fought in Fascist Italy's army (as an artillery captain) until Mussolini's downfall, then switched to the partisan anti-Fascist forces. In 1946 he emerged as Reggio Emilia's ace Communist organizer. Militant, tireless, persuasive, he gained 10,000 new party members for his province in the past two years, a time of dwindling ranks for Italian Communism in general. In 1948 he was handily elected to the national Chamber of Deputies...