Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would indeed be older than any previous U.S. President. Yet McCormack appears mentally alert and, despite his gaunt, 6-ft. 2-in., 168-lb. frame, physically fit. "I have never been sick in my life," he says. "I have never spent a day in a hospital." A tireless worker, he lives austerely, does not drink, rarely attends social functions...
Herbert H. Lehman, who died last week at 85, was a most unlikely sort of politician. He could not remember a name or a face. A small, somewhat heavy man, he had little humor, and almost no time for the pleasantries ordinarily associated with politics. He was a tireless do-gooder, given to rambling speeches about the virtues of liberalism. He had none of the classic grace of Franklin Roosevelt, none of the earthy charm of Al Smith. Yet in his time he was as popular with New York voters as either F.D.R. or the Happy Warrior -and he outlasted...
...whose tireless activities range through varied fields, from scientific administration to advising the Government, the prize was presumably recognition of a lifetime of accomplishment. But Nobel committees tend to focus on the specific, and Wigner was cited for early theoretical work on the structure of the atomic nucleus and his early recognition of the shattering implications of quantum mechanics...
Throughout the tireless round of farewell appearances-including one at Cologne, the old man's birthplace, where thousands of faithful Christian Democrats rallied to cry Auf Wieder-sehen-Adenauer returned to two themes that he hoped to leave behind in Germany's consciousness. The first was that any East-West "détente talk" could only lead to "new Munichs." Revealing that he himself last year had offered Moscow a ten-year "truce" in return for better treatment of East Ger many's people (he was turned down), Adenauer insisted that any hope of easing the cold...
Inevitably, much of it turns out to be chaff; Frost, for instance, was a tireless and occasionally tiresome punster. But from the mass of letters stretching back to 1915, a perceptive reader can piece together a startling self-portrait of the artist. Some of it will go against the grain of Frost's more sentimental adulators. People thought of him, Untermeyer explains, "as benevolent, sweet and serene. Instead he was proud, trou bled and jealous. Robert did not converse, he spoke...