Word: uncomplainingness
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Long Henry was a 375-ft.-talI marine crane, the towering pride of Kiel Harbor, when the victorious British appropriated him in 1945. For five years, Long Henry played his robust, uncomplaining part in cleaning up bomb-battered Kiel. This year, the British sold him to the French for 1...
His eldest son, John, a black-haired husky of 27, called in a quavering voice: "Pa . . . Pa, don't get excited." Dominick moaned, and his blackened head dropped. But at 2:40 in the afternoon, as the excavators reached him and began digging the dirt away from his legs...
Oriana Atkinson liked the Russians enormously, admired their unfailing kindness as hosts, was touched by their uncomplaining acceptance of endless labor for pathetic rewards. In other ways, too, her reactions were typical of U.S. visitors to Moscow. She was annoyed by the sloppy workmanship everywhere, by the suffocating snarls of...
The music was a possible $1,000 fine or one year's imprisonment for violation of the Lea ("anti-Petrillo") bill recently passed by Congress (TIME, April 15). The bill forbids any attempt to compel radio broadcasters to hire more people than they need. Contemptuous of the law of...
Poorest bigtime baseball: ham-acted by has-beens and never-will-bes and applauded by a record-breaking 11,708,642 uncomplaining customers jammed into the nation's ball parks.