Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though he had also been a D.A. and the state's attorney general. At present, there are three men on the Supreme Court-Justices William H. Rehnquist, Lewis F. Powell and Byron R. White-who had not been judges before their appointment. Bird, a quick study and a tireless administrator, is highly regarded by lawyers who know her work. Says Cornell Law School's Deputy Dean Judith T. Younger: "She'll learn soon enough...
...Republican side. Minority Whip Robert Griffin of Michigan, 53, seems to be far ahead of any rivals for the job of minority leader, his party's top Senate post. Tireless and even-tempered, he suffers from a lackluster speaking style. If successful, Griffin would become the G.O.P.'s highest elected officeholder and, like the party's national chairman, an important articulator of Republican policy. As it happens, the present G.O.P. chairman, Mary Louise Smith, an Iowa housewife, announced last week that she would resign. That sets the stage for a battle royal between conservatives and moderates...
...vice-presidential nomination-in what now seems to have been a blunder. Baker, intensely ambitious and able, may well become an active candidate for the top job. Still another possibility, though he begins from a small base, is Iowa's enormously popular Governor Robert D. Ray, a tireless campaigner who often ends a day of politicking with a family snack at an ice-cream parlor. He will be only 49 when his fourth term-an Iowa record-ends in January...
...place of residence: the posh blueblood area of Chattanooga. Bill Brock may wince at such mischief, but the ploy is hardly sufficient in itself to frustrate the conservative's bid for a second term. However, a looming Carter landslide in the state and Sasser's tireless and folksy campaign are genuinely formidable obstacles for Brock to overcome...
...reason. They offer an exact, detailed timetable, to be sure--they have researched the subject thoroughly, and each event is chronicled carefully and exactly--but at times it has little more substance than the Western press's descriptions of the Red Guard marching back and forth across China like tireless marionnettes...