Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Swathed in yards of bandages, mop-haired Pianist Van Cliburn, 24, walked shakily from a Manhattan hospital, an operation on the infected third finger of his right hand a success. Barred from the keyboard for at least two months, tireless Van, who has pounded away at some 90 concerts since his return from Russia last May, seemed almost resigned to trying a slower pace: "My doctor is trying to make me realize I must be more selfish, conserve my energy. If I don't, I won't be able to give anything to anybody...
...early M.A. is just an example of the many opportunities for advancement and special training that are opened each year to deserving students by the Program of Advanced Standing. Under Wilcox, a tireless innovator, the number of possibilities is sure to grow and multiply. As he told this fall's meeting of new Sophomores, "You are the program. We will try to help you do anything that seems reasonable and fair...
...Reader Henry's original tow consisted of an ancient Chevy, a tripod of two-by-fours and a length of rope. The Chevy, reduced to three wheels, sat at the bottom of the hill and provided the motive power. The rope ran around the car's tireless rear wheel, up the hill, around the fourth wheel which was mounted on the tripod, and back. By the following January, the tow had been refined by the addition of idler wheels and the substitution of a Ford tractor as power...
...space. "Mr. Mac," as President McDonnell likes to be called, is certain that space flight is ''one of the most rapidly evolving fields of human creativity in the history of the world," and he is determined to win a place on the planets for his company. A tireless worker (eleven hours a day, six days a week) and an omnivorous reader, he devours everything on space he can find, scans every proposal in such microscopic detail that section chiefs must bring along their junior engineers to answer his pinpoint questions...
...from eastern Santiago, where the war began, to Havana. His 6,000-man column, moving in captured tanks, Jeeps, cars, trucks and buses, drew clusters of flag-waving Cubans along every road, was stopped in its tracks by crushing crowds in every city. Castro himself was folksy, eloquent and tireless. "How will we enter Havana?" he asked. "Let me see, we will go along the Malecon and then we will turn up that avenue-what is it called-General something?" The crowd roared "General Batista!" and Castro bent double laughing...