Word: tirelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bill Knowland is a tireless public speaker, but strains painfully in his attempts at casual conversation, even with his family (the Knowlands have two daughters, one son). But Helen says: "But we know he loves us ... It's Billy's way, and it's all right with me." Bill once reprimanded her for jaywalking on the grounds that the wife of a lawmaker should avoid even the slightest infraction of law. But Helen merely says, half facetiously: "His high principles can be almost a nuisance at times." She encourages him in his only real hobby: pasting items...
...Home National Bank (capital: $807,000), seemed the very model of a progressive small-town banker. A frugal, prosperous bachelor of 50 who daily carried his lunch -a cold fried-egg sandwich and a Thermos of iced tea-to the bank in a wicker bas ket, he was a tireless dabbler in civil affairs. He led the movement for the summertime Empire State Music Festival that attracted thousands of culture seekers and dollars to Ellenville, was a district president in 1953 of the State Bankers Association, head usher of the Methodist Church. In the quiet little summer-resort village...
...stringy, tireless naval officer from the Ukraine named Vladimir Kuts countered for the Russians in the lung-busting 10,000-meter grind, staying in front all the way, and finishing with an Olympic record (28:45.6) in a final sprint that left experts gaping...
Aside from its news coverage, KLZ has been honored often for general programming. Under Terry, the station has won four Variety "Show-management" and 14 Billboard awards, plus numerous other citations from universities and foundations. Last year, Terry's alma mater hailed him for his "tireless devotion to the overall betterment of the broadcasting industry...
Major Barbara, on any basis of talent, is certainly major Shaw. Seldom was G.B.S. so fertile and brilliant-though he seldom so needed to be. For here the tireless showman who put on this mask and that, turned to this side or the other, came closest to a complete about-face. Here, in exalting a great munitions-maker, Socialist Shaw fired, as never so fiercely again, on his own ranks. The real weakness of Major Barbara is not that Shaw went ideologically into reverse, but that he went intellectually clean off the road...