Word: tirelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apart in their 29 years together. Linda became Paul's muse (the lovely, long-haired lady of his post-Beatles love ballads) and his sometime singing partner in the soft-rock group Wings. Her passions ranged far beyond the musical: she continued to take pictures, and she became a tireless champion of animal rights as well as vegetarianism...
...Portuguese enunciation than the environment. But Mendes' death taught her that the deadly tension between land and development was costing Brazil its future. "I realized that if we were going to survive, we couldn't continue with unsound environmental development," says Mitraud. Today the 32-year-old is a tireless activist for the World Wildlife Fund. On the road more than half of each month, Mitraud, who is single, shuttles between crusades to repair Brazil's rain forests, its fragile Atlantic archipelagoes or the rapidly disappearing central savannas. A coffee-guzzling eco-evangelist with a pendant shaped like an endangered...
Like presidential approval ratings, stock prices tend to inflate when the U.S. engages in armed conflict. Look no further than the tireless bull market that we enjoy today. It began in 1991 when the U.S. drove Saddam Hussein and his Iraqi army out of Kuwait. The first allied air raids came on Jan. 17 of that year and sent the Dow Jones industrial average soaring 4.6% in a day. By mid-March the Dow had jumped...
...will not say "murder" or put a J after the O because once you put it out of mind, it never happened. If you want the real scoop on Brentwood, Raymond says, you should read her newsletter, which includes a "Good Neighbor" feature on Marie Lewis, a tireless activist who enjoys gardening and has "also kept chickens and, at one time, ducks...
...dances with the single-minded intensity of the divine. On her head she balances a solid granite boulder, symbol of her mortal burdens. Round and round in syncopated steps, her open palms fluttering up and down in tireless supplication, she strives toward ecstasy. On and on she circles to the soft crooning of "Mariam, Mariam, Mariam," bending and rising in private communion; the heavy stone never wavers. Suddenly she halts and smiles with such sweetness that the Virgin must surely have answered her prayer...