Word: tirelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard has been a rugged defensive unit all year but had to wait until the Penn game to touch off the offensive spark. Tireless individual effort by the players and painstaking attention to minute details by Dick Harlow have been the reasons for this great transformation of the Harvard team. Coach Harlow has another fine late-November eleven which lacks only a couple of climax runners of becoming the best team he ever had at Harvard...
...Liberal nor Tory, who . . . would demand the right to lead the nation now if Churchill were liquidated by a German bomb. . . . Mr. Ernest Bevin, former farmer's boy, self-educated boss of the Trade Union movement, and Minister of Labor is a strong man. . . . All three are forceful, tireless, fearless, arrogant, patriotic and stubborn." "And now," wrote Beaver's 19th Century Baxter, "as the guns won't stop, I shall. The fire in the grate has gone to sleep, which seems an excellent idea...
...went by, he jerked the bell cord, backed up the train, and blasted away with a lengthy speech before the embarrassed little groups. The day-long strain on his voice and endurance was a constant anxiety to his handlers. But the brute endurance of his big frame and the tireless will to say his say kept him going...
Candidate Wallace stopped unheralded at a street corner and engaged four surprised passers-by in conversation. A tireless talker, the ablest interpreter of intricate New Deal theories of spending, lending, taxation, Henry Wallace held forth on these matters while the crowd grew slowly from four to 40. Shy but resolute, he fixed his blue eyes on the ground as he talked, sometimes scuffed the dirt away with his shoe. Presently one listener spoke up: "The trouble is, there's no limit to this spending." Henry Wallace replied that when private capital does not flow Government funds must be expended...
...years tireless, organ-voiced Bas com Anthony has called men to Christ. Nowadays he does much of his preaching and praying seated in an armchair, with his eyes shut, but the oldtime spirit is still there. Says he : "I like to think of the Lord standing right there. He's there but we can't see Him-I like to think of Him saying to me, 'How are you going to represent Me, Son?' and I'd say, 'Best I know how, Father...