Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went into his first post-election press conference the morning after Election Day with his chin high and a jaunty half-smile on his lips, but when he left half an hour later, he was drawn, grey, visibly weary. Veteran White House reporters had never seen him tire so fast. It was plain that the Democratic landslide had jolted Dwight Eisenhower badly-that he found it painful to talk about...
...layman's idea that because an automobile tire or piston wears out, so eventually must human organs, is only half true. In the youthful, still growing organism, cells divide rapidly, and all the components of the body (except nerve cells) are not only quickly added to, but also constantly replaced at the most intimate molecular level. This process does not stop with maturity; it goes on until death. But there is evidence that the rate of cell and tissue replacement slows down, until- perhaps at different times in dif ferent tissues - it is markedly less than the rate...
...biggest U.S. rubber company and the world's biggest tiremaker last week had one of the biggest management shifts in its 60-year history. Into the post of chairman of Akron's Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (1957 sales: $1.4 billion) stepped Edwin Joel Thomas, 59, president (since 1940), chief executive (since 1956 and longtime protege of Paul Weeks Litchfield, 83, who became honorary chairman of the board after 58 years with Goodyear. Up to president from executive vice president moved Russel De-Young, 49, the third president in a row to be tapped from the production ranks. Litchfield...
Like much of aging (73) Author Dinesen's fiction, some of these Anecdotes are too fey or too coy for popular consumption. But they have a place of their own in that special realm that authors never tire of exploring-the realm in which artistry, be it Shakespeare's or a cook's, seems more real than reality itself...
...mastery of the art of big-time wining and dining-and of educating thousands of barbarian palates to the delights of Rock Cornish game hen, crab meat Louis and cream of pumpkin soup. Any conclave of hungry and thirsty humans was his meat. "I won Goodyear Tire & Rubber over to pink champagne," he once boasted to a companion. Unexcelled at spreading a gourmet's table, even for the American Trucking Associations, he delighted in explaining to slightly befuddled clients that turtle soup was a better first course than melon prosciutto for the simple reason that melon prosciutto was undignified...