Word: tirelessness
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...collected by Billy from townspeople and the traveling press. Pitching all the way, Jimmy led his team to victory in the first game, 6 to 5, even though he himself went hitless. His team lost the second game, 12 to 8, despite his solid single. After the game, the tireless President jogged home in the 90° heat...
That we know any of Montaillou's indiscretions is the work of a tireless Inquisitor: Jacques Fournier, bishop of Pamiers. A learned, tough-minded Cistercian monk, Bishop Fournier took charge of the local Inquisition. Montaillou's heretics -spiritual heirs of the Albigensians who had been so bloodily crushed the century before-became his target. In the process he left a thick record of testimony from the accused and witnesses...
...told or devote themselves to tedious proclamations of selfhood while ignoring the class whose legend is writ in the Social Register. Despite his considerable failings as a novelist, Auchincloss does for that class what John O'Hara did for the country-club set: observes its workings with the tireless zeal of a behavioral scientist...
...table was to be tested in a tough forum: the two-day meeting of seven Western leaders seeking ways to stabilize the world economy. And if, after the Berlin visit, Helmut Schmidt was not yet Carter's warmest friend, he could hardly help having been impressed by his tireless guest...
Schlafly started fighting ERA when she wrote an article denouncing the amendment in her newsletter in 1972. After that, she says, "it just snowballed." She began tireless rounds of debating feminists, making appearances on talk shows and speaking at rallies. Ahead lies a bitter fight against the feminists' drive to win an extension of the amendment's deadline. Vows Schlafly: "We will bury ERA on March 22, 1979." Her opponents claim that she is using the ERA issue to aid her own career, but she denies having further ambitions for political office. Still, given her record, she seems...