Word: unsung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unsung Hero...
Willie Thompson is ready to run. "Thompson is the unsung hero of the squad," McCurdy said. "He's been up there all season." Eddie Martin's problem is condidtioning, but he has had more practice since Yale...
...well-known elephant trapper's stockade. He sets fire to an ivory merchant's store. He pumps some buckshot into the backside of a big U.S. TV personality (Orson Welles). Inexplicably, the great man presents the crazy dentist to the U.S. public as a glorious but unsung hero, "a modern Robin Hood...
...himself. Sweatily, he swung the heavy scoop between the clanking tender and the hellish firebox, pausing only rarely to rest his arm on the ledge of the left-hand window. But Old 97 and almost all the other steam locomotives have given way on U.S. and Canadian railroads to unsung diesels...
...risky activity," he lamented last week, "I gained no fortune, no material or even moral recognition." According to Britain's Foreign Office, however, Costantini's work did not go unsung. Without revealing details, a Whitehall spokesman admitted last week that "the whole security system of these [diplomatic] missions has been reconstructed" as a result of his activities. Now a breeder of tropical fish, Costantini modestly admits: "I was an inexpert spy, but I was smarter than the English...