Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Matthew Neely is 75, a spouter of purple poetry and a wearer of tweed suits which come in shades of lemon and green. A veteran of the Spanish-American War, and a tireless joiner (Elk, Moose, Odd Fellow, Mason), Matt Neely is an ex-Congressman from West Virginia, served a term as governor of his state, is now in his fourth term as U.S. Senator. On the record, Senator Neely is a politician...
...tough ride," Gibney cabled. "The general's expert jeep driver treated the jeep as if it were a plane while we rocketed along the narrow, crumbling, dusty roads. Taking that jeep ride was the best way of finding out how tireless and driving a man Walker is. There were no wasted seconds-even for lunch. The general did suggest that I take time out to eat with the drivers while he was conferring at a regimental command post, but I was too interested in the conference to accept his offer...
...Tireless, stubby Roy Harris held no elective office at the moment, but any day the legislature was in session he could be seen spraddled in a front-row seat, while the people's representatives hurried up to him to hear his wishes. With one exception, no Georgia governor since 1936 had been elected without Roy's help. All the time Roy was in the law business in Augusta, and it never seemed to matter to him who the candidate was. The important thing was that he won; Roy's firm got a lot of business from people...
...news vendor's tireless efforts brought their reward. For four years running, Communist provincial headquarters had acclaimed him "Tuscany's Best Unita Salesman," and he had been named inspector over all other Unita salesmen in the Borgo San Lorenzo area. Monti's fine record even led party headquarters to take a tolerant attitude when early this year he failed for the first time to turn in promptly the proceeds of his Unita sales...
Like Ahab tracking Moby Dick, tireless Ben spent the summer and fall following his grizzly over New Mexico and Colorado. Faithfully he sent back his dispatches to the hunting party: "We will get him sooner or later-just as it suits you." Ben kept on the trail till the grizzly hibernated, though once he complained, "My gun froze on the route. I didn't have a mouthful of meat for ten days...