Word: tiring
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...homely customs, and high ritualized hospitality. Johnson per ambulated, gazed and pontificated. He could also be playful as well as sententious. When a young bride sat on his knee and hugged and kissed him, the 64-year-old lexicographer said: "Do it again and let us see who will tire first." Rowers & Reapers. As against his un surpassed ear for talk, Boswell's eye for travel was merely superior. He had a feeling for the picturesque: the boatmen singing as they crossed to Raasay and, "as we came to shore, the music of rowers was succeeded by that...
...slogan-chanting West Berliners tramped faithfully behind Dieter Bielig's cross as he crusaded the length of the Wall. Women with small babies joined the column; a wheel-chaired cripple pulled frantically on his wheels to keep up with the throng. Not until 1 a.m. did the mob tire and go home...
Mandela became a disguise artist: dressed as a garage worker, he once wheeled a spare tire down the main street of Johannesburg under the nose of the cops. On another occasion, when he wanted to retrieve some documents from his Johannesburg office, Mandela dressed himself as a Zulu janitor in the traditional blue jumper and shorts, stuck huge earrings through his ear lobes, grabbed a broom and walked through the police cordon outside his office. Once inside, he tucked the papers under his shirt and calmly walked...
Died. John Frederick Seiberling, 73, son of the late Frank A. Seiberling, founder of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., who lived by the motto Dum vivimus vivamus ("While we're alive, let us live"), who rejected the business world to spend his life building a large private library and traveling; of cancer; in Akron, Ohio...
...company's stock, and by the end of 1960 he owned 95% of it. Last year he sold a 43.4% interest in the company to Paris-based Australian Financier Joseph R. Nash and a U.S. consortium including the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., Yale University, and the General Tire Co. pension fund. One reason for the sale was that Goergen was finding it hard to persuade German banks to meet his ever-mounting demands for expansion capital. But he also had a nonfinancial motive. Says he: "I see great advantages in cooperation with American firms in view of our common...