Word: tirelessness
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...been far worse. Several times last week Pat Nixon visited the bedside of her husband as he underwent treatment for a blood clot in the lung-not quite two months after his humiliating resignation. Now she shared his exile, a bitter reward for a life of self-effacing, tireless and often joyless devotion to the relentless demands of a unique political career...
...does a preacher with murky credentials draw a crowd in jaded New York City? Simple. You field a corps of 2,000 tireless, polite young buttonholers who spend weeks offering people free tickets. Invest $300,000 on publicity for the one-night stand-far more than Billy Graham has ever spent for an eight-day crusade. Along with the radio and TV spots and full-page newspaper ads, plaster posters of the smiling preacher on all conceivable wall space...
...rodeos from Florida to Alberta. In a dizzying week recently, he made three 800-mile round trips to appear in a pair of rodeos in Utah and a nine-day competition in Cheyenne. "If there's a choice between staying one place and going," explains the tireless Ferguson, "I'd rather keep going...
...China to the high plains of Peru, but in many ways Pat Nixon as First Lady was even more of an enigma than her husband. She was a profoundly private woman whose true feelings were known only to herself. To the world, she was the perfect presidential wife, tireless, modestly chic, coolly regal. To her family, she was the ultimate support, so accustomed to smiling through adversity that it became routine. When she was a girl, she once said, "life was sort of sad, so I tried to cheer everybody up. I learned to be that kind of person...
...Lisbon, they called them os homens sem sonho: the men who never sleep. They worked night and day, much to the dismay of more conventional politicians and bureaucrats addicted to Portugal's leisurely working hours and three-hour lunches, and they seemed equally tireless in keeping their identities hidden. Last week the young officers of the Armed Forces Movement, the rebel group that overthrew the regime of Marcello Caetano last April and ended half a century of dictatorial rule in Portugal, finally decided to flex their muscles publicly. In short order, the men of A.F.M. forced the resignation...