Word: tireless
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POOR RICHARD NIXON: THE MOST human President of the television age. A better statesman than politician, a tireless but graceless campaigner, a successful salesman who was liked but not well liked, the man seemed uncomfortable in his own skin. The canniest moments in the three-plus hours of Nixon, Oliver Stone's dense, ultimately disappointing biopic, capture Nixon at his most pathetically endearing--the Commander in Chief as klutz. In a telling vignette lifted from Woodward and Bernstein's The Final Days, Nixon (Anthony Hopkins) gets so frustrated at his inability to remove a medicine safety cap that he finally...
Evans first showed his tale to friends in Salt Lake City, who loved it. But regional publishers weren't interested. So he used his own money to print the book and his experience in the ad business to promote it. He was tireless. "The war was won in the trenches," he says, "from one bookstore to another." The book grew from a regional phenomenon into a national hit, reaching the paperback best-seller lists last year. That prompted Simon & Schuster to pay $4.2 million for The Christmas Box and its prequel, Timepiece, putting Evans into Marcia Clark's stellar company...
...recently formed coalition for women's safety, HASTE, approached Dean Bovet last week about its plan to sponsore outreaches in all of the undergraduate houses. She was eager to support them, and offered to act as their advisor when they achieved recognition as an official student group. The tireless support and consideration Bovet has given student proposals like these over the years has been invaluable...
Memorial Hall is yet another prime example of a breathtaking work of architecture, currently under major construction. While the sight of tractors and the piles of dirt and rock may taint the picturesque beauty of our red brick, autumn-colored setting, we nevertheless greatly appreciate the tireless efforts dedicated towards the proper upkeeping of our collegiate kingdom...
...Finn's tireless efforts for the Executive Committee of The Campaign for Harvard Law School allowed us to complete successfully the largest fundraising campaign in the history of legal education. He has been a wonderful friend of Harvard," Clark said...