Word: tirelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adlai is tireless while traveling. In Africa last year, he wore out his companions by wading into market places to ogle wares, customs, people. (Once in Malaya, he wrapped his arm around the shoulder of an ancient village chief, cooed: "Hello, Boss. How's the precinct?"). When he campaigns before small groups, Stevenson can be warm and witty. But in preparing a major speech for a major audience, the Stevenson personality abruptly changes...
Whatever the reason, bonny Shelley continued to churn out championship performances. On the last night of the Olympic tryouts at Detroit's Brennan pools last week, the tireless 18-year-old won the 100-meter butterfly in 1:12.3, just half a second over her own world record. Even if she has to do it all by herself, Shelley is determined to win her country an Olympic gold medal, something no U.S. woman swimmer could do four years ago at Helsinki...
...motives: having failed in his tries at the presidential nomination in 1948 and 1952, and despite his foreclosure this week. Stassen wants another shot in 1960. And to take over the Eisenhower wing of the party, he must first get Nixon out of the way. Clearly, the tireless Childe Harold was setting out on a new pilgrimage toward his promised land...
...defense was led by tireless, flamboyant Manhattan Trial Lawyer Emile Zola Berman,* 53, a World War II Army Air Force intelligence officer (Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star), who took the case without pay, on the urging of a committee of New York lawyers and judges that rallied to help McKeon. Berman, with his three civilian and three military aides, set about trying to prove that training marches into Parris Island tidal swamps were common practice-and that the toughness and spirit of the Marine Corps are based on such disciplinary techniques. "Sergeant McKeon," rasped Berman in his nerve-pinching voice...
...virile six-footer who, in costume, might have stood in for one of his own heroes, Sabatini was a tireless worker, and when he died in 1950 at 75, he left a shelf of 36 novels that make most current historicals seem like the work of low-energy convalescents. Sabatini had no use or time for what is sometimes called literary life, never read the novels of others, and probably did not think of himself as a novelist. But he knew all the tricks of the trade, and in his hands the historical was surefire. His plots are as tight...