Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preferring a glass of milk to a cocktail), Powell is an avid hunter of duck and quail and still likes to join his wife Josephine in an energetic game of tennis. Says he: "I used to play golf, but I married a tennis player." At work he is tireless, appearing at his desk around 8 o'clock every morning, including Saturdays and Sundays. Longevity runs in the family: his widowed father remarried seven years ago and is still flourishing...
...Hirohito was a formidable war leader," according to Bergamini, "tireless, dedicated, meticulous, clever and patient." But when the war came to an end at Hiroshima, the Emperor and his vassals began plotting to "convince outside observers, especially Americans, that the sacred Emperor had been a victim rather than villain of Japanese militarism." This suited the Allies admirably; without at least some semblance of the imperial system, General MacArthur estimated, he would need 20,000 American administrators to govern Japan and a million troops to police it. "There is no specific or tangible evidence," said MacArthur, "to connect the Emperor with...
...Tireless Lips. For all the theatrics, Enrico is that rare individual, a genuine musical prodigy-and on an instrument that demands physical maturity above all else. Many a child can scribble music or peck away at the piano. But an accomplished trumpeter needs a strong, well-developed diaphragm to pump a constant, high-pressure stream of breath into his horn. He needs powerful, tireless lips to shape his embouchure (or his "pucker," as Louis Armstrong liked to call it). Enrico...
...astronauts of Apollo 15, all Air Force officers, have distinguished themselves by their tireless efforts to sharpen their scientific skills. They are widely proclaimed to be the most scientifically knowledgeable crew to travel to the moon...
...trip to the Soviet Union, coupled with her tireless involvement in then radical movements, brought her before a state commission investigating Communism during the McCarthy era. She denounced the commission and refused to testify. "I simply told them that my business was none of their business." In 1962, while attending a disarmament conference in the Soviet Union, she wangled a Chinese visa and visited the mainland...