Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seismic Rumble. A tireless field man himself, Perkins accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary on an expedition to hunt down the Abominable Snowman in the Himalayas, returned with the disappointing news that the big tracks had been made by foxes and other small animals, whose imprints subsequently melted into scary giant forms. Jim Fowler, 34, the apotheosis of Jungle Jim, spent a month in Africa putting together a documentary on elephants. A television first for an upcoming Kingdom show: Fowler's recordings of elephant stomach rumblings, which are seismic...
...tireless party worker, she has ad dressed envelopes and rung doorbells just like anyone else. In 1954, while managing a losing congressional cam paign for Anthony B. Akers in New York's 17th Congressional District, she slipped away from a lavish reception for Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth, changed to street clothes in her Rolls-Royce while riding to Democratic headquarters on election night. In 1956 she headed the Volunteers for Stevenson committee in New York; in 1958 she ran another losing campaign for Akers; in 1960 she was deputy chairman of the Citizens Committee for Kennedy...
California (40): Despite saturation TV exposure and hordes of tireless volunteer workers, polls show that Goldwater is way behind. Democrats have signed up seven new voters for every three newly-registered Republicans, now hold a 3-to-2 lead in total registration. For Lyndon...
...Walter Jenkins has worked with me faithfully for 25 years," it said. "No man I know has given more personal dedication, devotion and tireless labor. Until late yesterday, no information or report of any kind to me has ever raised a question with respect to his personal conduct." While expressing "deepest compassion for him and for his wife and six children," Johnson added that "on this case, as on any such case, the public interest comes before all personal feelings...
This view--that the Goldwater candidacy, even in defeat, marks a significant beginning for the growth of the conservative movement in America--is held by many others. Even if wrong, it tends to encourage, not discourage, a continued tireless devotion to the conservative cause. For just as civil rights has stirred the passions and gained the undivided dedication of a small minority of people, conservatism, on the other end of the political bench, has done the same...