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...adds up to an exacting job done under high-speed pressure-and Bob Boyd is the man for it. For one thing, he is 100-proof tireless. He suspects that the average man gets too much sleep, and claims that four or five hours a night is about right for himself. He is seldom, if ever, sick. He considers the onset of a common cold a personal affront, and has a theory that the way to lick it is to stay up and fight it. These attributes have had an astonishing effect on Boyd's staff. They...
...likes to think none of its citizens lives-in corrugated tin hovels or sagging tents, with no capital left to drag a flock of youngsters to the next harvest area, and no claim to relief. For some, only federal surplus foods staved off actual starvation. With the onset of tireless, efficient mechanical picking machines and the growing influx of unemployed from the cities, their numbers were swelling again to the highest figure since the days of the Joads...
Eliot types all his verse. He is a slow worker and tireless reviser. He loves words, and when he comes across a particularly fine specimen he stores it away for future use: sometimes he also makes up words, e.g., "polyphiloprogenitive...
Trujillo argued persuasively that all the trouble in his part of the world was due to the tireless intrigues of Dominican, Venezuelan and Nicaraguan exiles, plotting with the Cuban, Guatemalan, Haitian, Costa Rican and Mexican governments to oust...
...Gamble. Tireless Tommy Lipton reversed an old igth Century success pattern. The son of an Irish-born Glasgow groceryman, he quit school at ten, worked around Glasgow for a few years, in 1865 sailed for the U.S. Instead of finding his fortune he drifted from job to job-a worker in the rice fields of South Carolina, a plantation bookkeeper, a clerk in New York. But Tommy Lipton never forgot some of the things he learned in P. T. Barnum's U.S. In 1869, with savings of $500, he went back to Glasgow and two years later opened...