Word: tireless
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...Pole who was the foreign fighter of his era. What is a terrorist? Amerine asks. Someone who flies planes into buildings, says a cadet. The Japanese did basically that, says Amerine. Someone who kills civilians, says another. The U.S. did that in Dresden, Amerine replies. He is the tireless devil's advocate, forcing cadets into deeper analysis and dense moral ground...
...figure in the development of graphic literature, Eisner worked in "the biz" for over 60 years. He set new standards for the form's possibilities with his cinematic weekly Spirit series during the 1940s, and then again in the late twentieth century, with his tireless boosterism for long-form "graphic novels." His final book combines literary biography and criticism into an activist work striking a blow against anti-Semitism. Though not without flaws, The Plot carries through Eisner's ambitious legacy...
It’s reading period at Harvard, and true to style, even Crimson columnists, tireless public servants though we may seem, do occasionally turn our minds towards ways to improve our academic lots in life—which is to say, our GPAs. There are, in this modern era of curved grades carefully designed to hide their obvious inflation from prying eyes, precious few ways left to do this. One could, of course, study harder—write a better paper, read even the sourcebook articles that have been overlooked in section and so on—but this...
Accepting that his views no longer easily prevail, he has devoted himself instead to reining in the new court. "He does it by a very agile mind, a fluid pen and tireless work," says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther. The term just ended was a particularly satisfying one for Brennan, highlighted by his authorship of two decisions that strongly reasserted the constitutional separation of church and state. Brennan has spent nearly 29 years on the high bench fighting to uphold such principles, and he has some formidable weapons at his command...
...tournament's size favors heedless youth. In a draw containing 128 players, the eventual victor must win seven matches in two weeks, some of which are bound to be played on ill-kempt outer courts, some of which are bound to be interrupted by rain or darkness. The physically tireless have the edge in these circumstances. And so do those who can avoid dank brooding on fate's fickleness...