Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...person who was the key to the success of the whole thing was Bob Stone," agrees Fred L. Glimp '50, vice president for alumni affairs and development, who calls him "energetic and tireless. He's got to be the best volunteer leader any university has ever had for any fund drive...
...history of illustration is at least as ancient as the clay pictographs of Sumer (3000 B.C.) and as new as the freshest video graphics. To trace the highlights of that epic would take unflagging research and a tireless, discerning eye. These are, happily, the attributes of Michel Melot, a Paris-based librarian who seems to have studied every scroll, page and poster since the origin of writing and painting...
...courage to mention the unthinkable: manners [LIVING, Nov. 5]. As the mother of three children, I found your story gave me the much needed support and encouragement to continue my tireless nagging...
...watched Indira Gandhi one afternoon, as she slowly drove down to one of the military units in my hometown in South India. People lined the streets and waved as always. Traffic came to a standstill as the official convoy went by. In the hot Indian sunshine, she seemed tireless and determined, her strong features and white-streaked hair lent her an air of invincibility. To me, she embodied the strength of India, its achievements, its aspirations and its very spirit. For many Indians, there is today a personal sense of loss. Indira was not always one of the world...
...full range of adult behavior as well-is that "we are all born ignorant and oafish," and it is the duty of all parents to teach their younger selves how to behave properly. The only way to do so, she says, is by providing a good example plus tireless nagging. "It takes 18 years of constant work to get [a child] into presentable enough shape so that a college will take him or her off your hands," she announces. The child must be taught not just to say thank you, not even just to treat other people with consideration...