Word: tirelessness
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...column for the Hearst newspapers. At her peak of influence in the '30s and '40s, the column appeared in 1,200 newspapers worldwide. A celebrated feuder, most notably with Orson Welles over his film Citizen Kane, which she said ridiculed William Randolph Hearst, she was also a tireless reporter with sharp instincts for a story and an early-warning radar for scandal. Two of her biggest exposés were the Douglas Fairbanks-Mary Pickford divorce and Ingrid Bergman's affair with Roberto Rossellini...
...another lull in the battle for peace inspired nervous speculation. In fact, the situation was not at all that sour. There were sound reasons for cautious optimism as the secret talks were to resume this week and Henry Kissinger resumed his commuting to Paris. In tribute to his tireless comings and goings, some South Vietnamese peasants now describe him as "the king who travels at night...
...hustings. "Vote straight CBS News. Re-elect the most trusted man in America . . . Walter Cronkite." ABC modestly reported that Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner would tell what went on in the polling booth "and what's coming out." All three networks emphasized citizenship and the tireless highmindedness of electronic journalism. None mentioned the high-pricedness. This year the combined coverage cost some $10 million, roughly what the presidential candidates together spent on TV commercials-with about the same results. Adman Stanley Tannenbaum, chairman of Kenyon & Eckhardt, was forced to cry electronic tears. "If I had as little effect...
Robinson, who lived with his wife Rae on an estate in Stamford, Conn., spent his last years as a well-to-do businessman (banking, insurance, construction, food franchising), a conspicuous Republican-turned-Democrat and a tireless, outspoken champion of civil rights and rehabilitation programs for drug addicts. (The eldest of his three children, Jack Jr., a reformed heroin addict, was killed in an auto accident last year...
...Crusader for real? Many people have their doubts. Yet for the past seven months he has carried on a tireless campaign for penal reform. His speech at Harvard was both sincere and convincing. Jimmy Hoffa spent almost five years at Lewisburg. During that time he witnessed two riots, two strikes, incidences of guard brutality, mass rapes, stabbings, and murder. He spent most of his days stuffing mattresses in the prison's clothing room. For the first time in his life, Jimmy Hoffa was pushed around. He hasn't forgotten the experience