Word: tirelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already won the D.S.M. When Secretary Frank Knox conferred it on him, the official citation said: "By his capable performance of duty on both coasts of the United States, he laid the groundwork for amphibious training of practically all American units. . . . His proficient leadership and tireless energy in the development of high combat efficiency among the forces under his supervision were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service...
State's tireless critics have had three longstanding complaints. The Department, they said, was: 1) haughtily indifferent to what the public thought; 2) so inefficiently organized that high officials kept tripping over one another's feet; 3) downright reactionary...
Homespun, frontier-born Dafoe distrusted noise, excitement and quick results. His tools were tireless industry, forceful writing, lust for information. He found his spiritual home in Winnipeg, when the Free Press's owner, Sir Clifford Sifton, gave him a free hand as editor. When Sir Clifford broke with Canada's great Liberal French leader, Laurier, on the issue of U.S.-Canadian reciprocity, Dafoe supported Laurier. But when Laurier failed to support conscription in World War I, Dafoe broke with him, threw the Free Press weight behind Conservative Sir Robert Borden...
...life link the cultures of North and South America and interweave them with the old romantic culture of Spain. Readers may make their own decisions as to how important that work is now. But ever since Longfellow mastered Spanish, since Irving wrote his studies of old Spain, and tireless Prescott, grey, half-blind, burrowed into Spanish archives to write his histories, the works of interpretation have gone on, their very number showing how much misunderstanding existed and how deep was the desire to end it. For 50 years the man best qualified to do so has lived in the distinguished...
...record seems to show that Churchill is susceptible to lung ailments. There is a limit to the capacity of an aging, though apparently tireless, body to fight them...