Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robinson, who lived with his wife Rae on an estate in Stamford, Conn., spent his last years as a well-to-do businessman (banking, insurance, construction, food franchising), a conspicuous Republican-turned-Democrat and a tireless, outspoken champion of civil rights and rehabilitation programs for drug addicts. (The eldest of his three children, Jack Jr., a reformed heroin addict, was killed in an auto accident last year...
...Crusader for real? Many people have their doubts. Yet for the past seven months he has carried on a tireless campaign for penal reform. His speech at Harvard was both sincere and convincing. Jimmy Hoffa spent almost five years at Lewisburg. During that time he witnessed two riots, two strikes, incidences of guard brutality, mass rapes, stabbings, and murder. He spent most of his days stuffing mattresses in the prison's clothing room. For the first time in his life, Jimmy Hoffa was pushed around. He hasn't forgotten the experience
...long, improbable road, and he savored the moment. "My nomination," he said, "is all the more precious in that it is a gift of the most open political process in all of our political history. It is the sweet harvest of the work of tens of thousands of tireless volunteers, young and old alike ... As Yeats put it, Think where man's glory most begins and ends/ And say my glory
...That tireless sports fan, Richard Milhous Nixon, has been at it again. Since he proved ineffective in dealing with football futures earlier this year (his diagrammed play did not keep the Miami Dolphins from losing 24-3 to the Dallas Cowboys in the Super Bowl), he turned this time to baseball past. At the behest of an RKO General radio reporter, and later in a bylined article for the Associated Press, President Nixon elaborately documented his choices for an alltime, All-Star baseball team...
Unreal. Sprague learned some of his tireless approach from his parents, both psychiatrists, who taught him to probe and analyze. Then, during World War II, he learned an unforgettable lesson when Navy shipmates tried to rescue some drifting Japanese sailors and were riddled by Japanese gunfire. "You've got to have a society," Sprague says now, "in which people who transgress will be caught and punished." Even after the Supreme Court's ban on the death penalty, he continues to support it, and last week the Philadelphia D.A.'s office proposed amendments to state law that they...