Word: tirelessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Walk on the Wild Side (1956); of a heart attack; in Sag Harbor, N.Y. A 1931 journalism graduate of the University of Illinois, he spent a few years wandering through the South and Midwest, meeting the losers and misfits who would later inhabit his fiction. A tireless traveler and avid gambler, Algren was a genial loner who spoke in the language of his working-class roots. He once warned, "Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never go to bed with a woman whose troubles are greater than your...
Part of the problem is that even the newly chastened Haig still has not turned his full attention to making policy. Moreover, for most of his career he has been a tireless executor of policy rather than a creator, and he still appears to prefer working twelve-hour days to delegating authority...
...memories of those who served under him, Omar Nelson Bradley always remained "the G.I.'s general." He was a tireless infantry leader who seemed to be everywhere at once. Dressed in a grimy old trench coat, his fatigues stuffed into his boots, "Brad" would frequently abandon his desk at headquarters for flights to the front in a Piper Cub. There, he insisted on inspecting everything from forward outposts to latrines. Though not noted for eloquence, he enjoyed addressing the troops in his flat Missouri twang, and he gave them plain talk. "Fellows like me have been in this business...
...regularly did, in a conventional way, from the beginning of the 16th century onward), they implied that his talent was godlike in a nearly literal sense: just as the creator of the physical world knows all the secrets of its structure, so Leonardo's insatiable curiosity and apparently tireless power of scrutiny and notation had raised his art to an epic level of knowledge...
...summoned his Polish comrades to Moscow last week he must have been feeling especially sure of himself; the 26th Soviet Communist Party congress had just finished showering him with glory. Through session after session, Brezhnev had listened impassively to a stream of eulogies on his wisdom, his leadership, his "tireless" struggles for peace. Then after eight days it was over, and Brezhnev stepped to the podium last week to bring the congress to a close. Looking relatively vigorous and speaking forcefully, though with his usual slur, the 74-year-old leader announced his election as party chief for another five...