Word: tirelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This political attack was made, Ives pointed out, in the face of Dulles' record in foreign affairs as a willing and tireless. aid of Administration diplomacy-a record which had received the praise of Cordell Hull, George Marshall, James Byrnes, Dean Acheson, Harry Truman...
...adds up to an exacting job done under high-speed pressure-and Bob Boyd is the man for it. For one thing, he is 100-proof tireless. He suspects that the average man gets too much sleep, and claims that four or five hours a night is about right for himself. He is seldom, if ever, sick. He considers the onset of a common cold a personal affront, and has a theory that the way to lick it is to stay up and fight it. These attributes have had an astonishing effect on Boyd's staff. They...
...likes to think none of its citizens lives-in corrugated tin hovels or sagging tents, with no capital left to drag a flock of youngsters to the next harvest area, and no claim to relief. For some, only federal surplus foods staved off actual starvation. With the onset of tireless, efficient mechanical picking machines and the growing influx of unemployed from the cities, their numbers were swelling again to the highest figure since the days of the Joads...
Died. Ernest Hurst Cherrington, 72, tireless prohibitionist, founder (1919) of the World League Against Alcoholism, onetime editor of Anti-Saloon League publications (The American Issue, The American Patriot); of cancer; in Worthington, Ohio...
Eliot types all his verse. He is a slow worker and tireless reviser. He loves words, and when he comes across a particularly fine specimen he stores it away for future use: sometimes he also makes up words, e.g., "polyphiloprogenitive...