Word: tireless
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Tangled Midwest. To be sure, the merger trend among U.S. railroads is nothing new (see map). But the plans for the Penn Central were the most am bitious yet. As Saunders promoted them, his tireless determination seemed to promise eventual success. Inevitably, it gave new impetus to a growing roster of other corporate unions: ¶ In the East, the coal-rich Norfolk & Western and the Chesapeake & Ohio-Baltimore & Ohio are moving toward a merger that will probably be consummated some time in 1970. The C. & O. took effective control of the B. & O. five years ago in a move that...
...revelations. The Times provided a highly detailed, perceptively written account of how Philby got started in espionage. The Observer ran some sentimental recollections of Eleanor's-just the thing to make every girl wish she had a spy for a husband. "If your work demands the most tireless watchfulness, you tend to compensate by the intensity of your sex-based relationships," wrote Eleanor. "Our marriage was perfect in every way." In a separate article entitled, "The Spy We Took In from the Cold," the Observer explained why it had hired Philby after he had been dismissed from intelligence...
Defeats. His tireless public career as Labor candidate for Parliament, as assiduous sitter on committees, is the record of one defeat after another. Nobody would listen-even when, as adviser to the Labor Party on foreign affairs, he tried in 1938 to muster the party to support rearmament against Hitler. Nobody, Woolf complains, read his three-volume treatise on politics...
ROUSSEAU AND REVOLUTION, by Will and Ariel Durant. The final volume of their 38-year labor on the story of civilization once again demonstrates the Durants' immense talent for transmuting tireless research into never tiresome storytelling...
ROUSSEAU AND REVOLUTION, by Will and Ariel Durant. This final volume of their 38-year labor to record man's progress through 20 civilizations, once again demonstrates the Durants' immense talent for transmuting tireless research into never tiresome storytelling...