Word: unsung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great a role in the selection of our national leaders. Mr. McNamara, with his drab, oldfashioned, almost spartan public image, has proved a welcome and competent exception to the rule. His unquestioned integrity, coupled with his demonstrated ability, loyalty and courage, mark him as one of the truly unsung heroes of our time. It is regrettable that such enormous talents are to be relegated to the second-class showcase of the World Bank presidency...
Senior linebacker Bob Machin was the winner of the LaCroix Award for the team's Unsung Hero...
...competition for the old, established clubs; experts estimated that it would take at least five years for the West Division to reach parity with the East. Over the past two weeks, West teams have played twelve games against the East-winning four and tying two. Last week, with an unsung goalie named Wayne Rutledge stopping 37 shots short of the net, the surprising Los Angeles Kings upset the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1, and thereby tied the Maple Leafs with 17 points for first place in the overall N.H.L. standings...
...novelist. But Nelly Sachs was a poser: A Jewish woman poet of 75 who wrote in German and lived (as she still does) in Sweden. Had the academy simply decided that it was the turn of Jewish writers? Did it already have in the wings an unsung Arab for the next time around...
...nursery for children of working mothers, a Boy Scout troop among urchins. The Brendens, both Lutherans, arrived in Saigon last year under the auspices of Viet Nam Christian Service, a relief agency jointly sponsored by Lutheran World Relief, Church World Service, and Mennonites. The couple symbolizes the largely unsung efforts by U.S. churches to respond-as they have done in all wars-to the human suffering that is the unwanted but inevitable result of the Viet Nam struggle...