Word: tirelessness
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...says. "But we're not radicals just because we're tired of being sold out and passed by." Above all, Miller's voice rings with a keen and painfully won knowledge of the workingman. This knowledge, along with a plain-spoken but tough style, made the tireless Miller a formidable negotiator. As he remarked, after one sharp exchange in the last days of the bargaining: "I know. I was there in the mines. I know what it's like...
...facing backward-from the bouncing jump seat of Carey's limousine. Sider fought down mounting car sickness and emerged in Queens with richly detailed notes on Carey's political philosophy. Boston Bureau Chief Sandra Burton recalls spending "several of the most exhausting days" of her career trailing tireless Ella Grasso, Connecticut Governor-elect. Now Burton found herself in Hartford hauling bags and boxes heavy with ravioli, cannoli and napoleons-gifts from Ella's eager supporters. The campaign also forced reflection and, surprisingly in a year marked by corroding cynicism, strengthened some correspondents' faith in the political...
...Lean, tireless, dapper and serenely poised, Parsky was born in Connecticut, graduated from Princeton, and was for a time an English teacher (he still unwinds by reading Wordsworth and Keats). He later became a corporate securities lawyer and then a middle-level Treasury official. He left that post in 1973 for the Federal Energy Office, then headed by Simon, where he established himself as a crack coordinator and credible witness in congressional hearings. When Simon became Treasury Secretary, he tailored a new job especially for Parsky. Among other things, Parsky is charged with developing policies to muffle the impact...
...selfless, tireless one, the rich giver and the meek receiver, with life giving energy flowing like milk from the breast, costing her nothing, is too, too much. Looked at in the grey light of daily living the concept is the demand of the ravening child, and we cannot respond to such a claim in man or child...At my age I care to my roots about the quality of women, and I care because I know how important her quality...
...addition, this Jewish-communist cell-and this sect alone--has hypocritically waged an underhand racial war against another colony of proven worth, of enterprising, tireless workers who have contributed to the welfare of Chile: The Arabs...