Word: working
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...widower with two sons, 8 and 12, Stuempfig somehow combines his absorption in art with "generally fulfilling the job of parent. It's either work or stomach ulcers for me because if I don't paint I get sick." For the last 15 years he has been painting an average 56-hour week, alternately learning and ignoring his craft...
Going promptly to work, pretty President Alvarez personally designed the studios (ceilings 22 ft. high, and doors wide enough to admit football floats or elephants). In three weeks she spurred admiring engineers to complete wiring that normally takes three months. Despite the competition of Oklahoma's Senator Robert S. Kerr and Tulsa's grand old man of oil and No. 1 citizen, W.G. Skelly (who had also applied for a TV station permit), she secured the tower of the National Bank of Tulsa for KOTV's transmitter. Wearing shorts, she clambered up 400 ft. on an outside...
...gospel missions, and had found charity everywhere. She had narrowly escaped being firmly placed in a home for unmarried mothers, was compelled to accept money from strangers (she sent it all back), had 19 offers of free lodging with meals, and scores of offers of help in finding work...
...first secretary at Britain's Washington embassy during World War II, broad, black-haired Isaiah Berlin developed two bad habits: he was always late to work (he likes to sleep until 10:30), and always the last to appear at a dinner party. No one minded. His flashing dinner talk never failed to charm Washington hostesses and capital pundits. And his brilliant reports on U.S. thinking and doing made him Winston Churchill's most penetrating official observer of wartime America...
...executor handed them over to Bartok's close friend and fellow composer Tibor Serly, who had earlier spent four months of skull-cracking labor trying to decipher the piece. Serly later said: "No man ever had such a task in his life . . . In order to finish this work as Bartok would have finished it, I had to put myself in a dead man's mind." Serly completed the score for viola (after rejecting the notion of adapting it for the more popular cello) and worked out the full orchestration...