Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...China to the high plains of Peru, but in many ways Pat Nixon as First Lady was even more of an enigma than her husband. She was a profoundly private woman whose true feelings were known only to herself. To the world, she was the perfect presidential wife, tireless, modestly chic, coolly regal. To her family, she was the ultimate support, so accustomed to smiling through adversity that it became routine. When she was a girl, she once said, "life was sort of sad, so I tried to cheer everybody up. I learned to be that kind of person...
...Lisbon, they called them os homens sem sonho: the men who never sleep. They worked night and day, much to the dismay of more conventional politicians and bureaucrats addicted to Portugal's leisurely working hours and three-hour lunches, and they seemed equally tireless in keeping their identities hidden. Last week the young officers of the Armed Forces Movement, the rebel group that overthrew the regime of Marcello Caetano last April and ended half a century of dictatorial rule in Portugal, finally decided to flex their muscles publicly. In short order, the men of A.F.M. forced the resignation...
Gloria Steinem, 38. "The main accomplishment is a change of consciousness and the way of looking at the world, the raising up of the grid on sex and race. But the change in view has yet to take economic and structural forms." During three years of tireless lecturing about the women's movement, Steinem has done much to change viewpoints, and now she is retiring from the talk circuit to concentrate on writing. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Smith, she serves on the advisory board of the National Organization for Women, helped convene the National Women...
...with precision. The Polish team, which upset England in the elimination rounds, arrived in West Germany relatively unknown. Though the Poles do not favor the star system, not even the most solid collective front could hide Grzegorz Lato, a great right forward who leads the team's bruising, tireless attack. Going into last weekend, the Polish team had the best record in Cup play...
Died. Ahmed Messali Hadj, 76, patriarch of the Algerian nationalist movement; in Paris. Tireless and magnetic, Messali began assailing French colonialism in the 1920s, spent years in jail and under house arrest, and saw himself as the Gandhi of North Africa. But when the struggle for Algerian independence intensified in the 1950s, he was regarded as an ineffectual anachronism by the militant F.L.N. (National Liberation Front). Ignored by the Algerian government after independence, Messali lived out his years an exile in France...