Word: tirelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dream of financing capital-starved entrepreneurs ("The small guy who's on the ball") and making a profit to boot had become too important to ignore. When Graham landed in India with funds raised from free-enterprising Americans, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru himself sat down with the tireless enterpriser for a half-hour's talk and wished him all success. Krishnamachari not only approved, but last week eased import restrictions on needed machinery for Graham projects and promised that all profits could be taken out of India...
...Latter-Day Roman. As SACEUR, Norstad is a great contrast to his tireless, hard-driving predecessor. "When General Gruenther wanted to know how many seats there were in an auditorium, everybody trembled; now we just tremble when there is something worth trembling about." The modesty that was one of Norstad's "faults" at West Point is still with him. When he was first elevated to SACEUR, he tried to continue his old practice of slipping into SHAPE unobtrusively by a side door, abandoned it only after his public information officer firmly told him that he must use the front...
Yovicsin's first year has been a remarkable one. He survived the tireless battery of questions from the local press, the scepticism of many, a discouraging wave of injuries which resulted in something of a "jinx" year for the football team, and the demands made from both the Ivy Towers and the clubrooms. Yet he can still smile shyly from behind his desk in the Indoor Athletic Building and say honestly, "I'm certainly looking forward to next year...
...affairs with a good executive's cool hand and hot impatience with doubletalk ("You say what you have to say in five minutes." explains one of his ministers. "He asks you a few questions-right to the point-and that's that"). Though he is a tireless administrator, he enjoys his time off: a dash into the country in a Cadillac or Mercedes or Rolls, an energetic game of boules (lawn bowling) with a few French servants and friends, a simple meal (French cuisine) followed by an occasional American cigarette (he does not inhale...
...been farmers; some, in camps near Bethlehem and Tulkarm, had spent the years watching longingly from distances of a few hundred yards while the despised Israelis plowed land that once was theirs. At first the Arabs lived with the spittle of hate always moist on their lips. But as tireless UNRWA workers organized schools, hospitals, kitchens, maternity centers, libraries and sports fields, Palestine's inchoate mass of refugees slowly became a society...