Word: tirelessness
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...publish some fine and original short stories and eventually returned to the novel with new juices flowing. In America, her story of a 19th century Polish actress who sets up a utopian commune in California, won the National Book Award in 2000. But it was as a tireless, all-purpose cultural critic that she made her lasting mark. "Sometimes," she once said, "I feel that, in the end, all I am really defending ... is the idea of seriousness, of true seriousness." And in the end, she made us take it seriously...
Everett might never rank up there with Dante in terms of physical abilities, but his pure intensity and tireless work ethic have been a motivation to his teammates on and off the field...
...away his most lasting legacy will be the damage he has done to civil liberties in the name of Sept. 11. After hurrying the PATRIOT Act through congress, he has been a tireless advocate for allowing the executive and judicial branches to ignore the Bill of Rights. He has worked to close immigration hearings in order to keep due process from getting in the way of justice (read: arbitrary imprisonment of men of Middle Eastern descent). To that end, he has not only used every pretext possible to detain people without burdening the judiciary with the added task of charging...
...people and their cause and won them a hard-fought war for international legitimacy and recognition. Today the Palestinian national cause stands as a pressing issue in the minds of world leaders, diplomats, and ordinary people the world over due in a significant part to Arafat’s tireless advocacy and dedication...
...Richard Durbin, the senior Senator from Illinois, counsels Obama to follow the model of Hillary Clinton. As a national figure entering the Senate with more buzz than clout, Clinton did her homework, kept her head down and stayed in tireless contact with her New York constituents. Gradually, her political capital rose. Obama says he plans to ask for her advice. Depending on how the conversation goes, maybe they could wager on the chances of them ever running together for the White House. --With reporting by David E. Thigpen/Chicago and Jeannie McCabe/Honolulu