Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...listened--to student activists, students in academic difficulty, students who had a new project in civil rights or drama or social work. He has borne long hours of argument with tireless patience, and greeted new proposals with enthusiasm. In his six years as Dean of the College he has been more accessible than most professors. Students button-holed him in his office without appointments, and they debated with him at Harvard Policy Committee meetings for two hours every week. Editors of this newspaper called him often, sometimes at odd hours of the night. He was available for advice and conversation...
...tireless and meticulous worker, he often spends all day receiving visitors, then works far into the night to catch up on his backlog of paper work. His ascetic self-discipline and brilliance as a back-room negotiator have put him in firm command of his party and won him the grudging respect of opposition leaders. Franz Josef Strauss, Bavaria's powerful Christian Socialist leader, calls him the "most important man in German politics...
Kiesinger also, played up the fact that he had proved himself to be a good democrat and a tireless advocate of Franco-German friendship. That seemed good enough for most Germans. Both opposition parties pledged not to attack him for the Nazi ties. The German press seemed to agree with the mass-circulation tabloid Bild Zeitung that "Kiesinger has to blame himself for nothing more than youthful error...
...also gather its audience into a cohesive whole with a sureness that is unmatched in any other area of communications. By its coverage of the assassination of President Kennedy and the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, TV news demonstrated its tireless capability and versatility. For millions upon millions, the President's funeral became a heart-moving personal experience. "Television held the country together over the transition period in a unique way and helped preserve the whole democratic process," says onetime FCC Chairman Newton Minow, who exempts TV news from his charge that the medium is a "vast wasteland...
...Attorney General, who once taught international law, is not a member of the foreign policy "establishment" that has been the target of Johnson's critics on foreign policy. All but the die-hard conservatives have considered Katzenbach an effective, intelligent and tireless Attorney General, particularly in the civil rights field. In Congressional committee sessions he has been informed, articulate, and well-received as a witness...