Word: tirelessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indiana is a basically conservative state with two remarkably liberal Senators. Hartke's main advantage is his campaign technique which is tireless and personal. This year he faces an opponent whom he calls "a faceless rubber stamp for the Administration." But he may find that that is what the voters in the Hoosier State want...
...between the Soviet Union's technological advances and the wretched living and working conditions endured by many citizens, including the veritable army of shawled grannies who still sweep the street of today's Russia. Mikhail Nozhkin, a young movie actor turned balladeer, sings of Auntie Nyusha, the tireless, smiling cleaning woman who sweeps up the messes of others. She is avoided by an immaculate bureaucrat, who fears he would dirty his clean hands if he touched her. While others want pensions and vacations, she never stops working. "Reactors are roaring, rockets are flying and radar surrounds us," goes...
Frank C. Erwin Jr. is the biggest booster the University of Texas has. His Cadillac is orange and white-the school colors-and he dotes on the national-champion Longhorn football team. He is a tireless money raiser and wants nothing less than to make the U.T. system the best in the country. He has no patience with anyone or anything he considers damaging to his beloved alma mater-and since Erwin is chairman of the university's board of regents, his antagonists are automatically on red alert...
ASKED if he minded growing older, the venerable and tireless Maurice Chevalier once remarked, "Not when I consider the alternative." But for thousands of American elderly, the alternative almost seems preferable. Condemned by society to a life "of decreasing usefulness, they wait out their days in idleness and, in many cases, poverty...
...showstoppers; familiarity does not dim their luster. In Partisans, a cadre of dancers glides mysteriously across the stage in voluminous black cloaks, suggesting a team of monkish motorcycle racers. The finale is perhaps the most extraordinary Moiseyev dance of them all-a Ukrainian gopak in which half a dozen tireless soloists outbound each other in a sequence of eye-dazzling maneuvers that defy both gravity and credibility...