Word: tirelessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reelection. It was equally painful when the privilege and honor of welcoming home the hostages as President was denied him [Feb. 9]. But the most devastating blow was dealt by President Reagan in his failure to utter one word of public thanks to President Carter for his heroic and tireless efforts to bring the hostages home alive. Is this an example of the so-called Reagan "class"? Shame...
...last day in office, President Jimmy Carter conveyed to Algerian President Bendjedid Chadli "the immense debt of gratitude" felt by the U.S. Wrote Carter: "We would certainly not have concluded this accord, if we had not had the assistance of your government." State Department officials spoke admiringly of the "tireless work"-and the "imagination and understanding" displayed throughout the ten weeks of ceaseless negotiations by the three chief Algerian envoys: Ambassador to Washington Redha Malek, Ambassador to Tehran Abdel-krim Ghraieb, and Central Bank Governor Mohammed Seghir Mostefai...
...chance of delivering that hug was made possible by the patience and persistence of the outgoing President and his tireless diplomats. They labored through marathon meetings in Washington and Algiers, as other key actors in the drama, including turbaned Iranian clerics and pin-striped international bankers, met in London, New York, Tehran and Washington. As the negotiations intensified, the gulf between the U.S. and the ever unpredictable government of Iran, ruled by the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, an 80-year-old mystic leader, had looked too wide to be breached readily...
Doig calls his writing a "cottage-industry" employment, and the result is what you would expect from a tireless home craftsman. Winter Brothers is well-conceived and well-crafted. Every piece is carefully set in its proper position, the seams lovingly shaved smooth, every link subtly interconnected to the larger piece. The wit is quiet, the words understated and nuanced, homely yet precise and evocative. Intrigued, you may soon want to stay up late with the retiring, lumberjack-shirted fellow thumbing through browned pages in his patient, archivist's enthusiasm, joining him and Swan as another "winter brother...
DIED. Dorothy Day, 83, the guiding spirit of the Catholic Worker movement, a tireless activist, reformer and comforter of the poor and downtrodden; of heart disease; in New York City (see RELIGION...