Word: spadework
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Fellow Bundestag Deputies thought of Socialist Alfred Frenzel, 61, as a dull fellow but a beaver for work. His diligent legislative spadework on any topic assigned him earned him a prized seat on the defense committee. There one of his proudest accomplishments was pushing through the adoption of a new vitamin-enriched bread for the West German army. Said a colleague: "No report was too tedious for him, no inspection trip too long...
...Maryland's Woodstock College. In the current issue of The Catholic World, Father Weigel provides an equably tempered, coolly reasoned analysis of what he calls "The Protestant Stance Today." Conventional Protestants who have given the matter little thought may be somewhat surprised at Father Weigel's spadework in the intellectual subsoil of the ground they stand...
Stiff Upper Lip Service. The genesis of the raid seems to be the only assumption in a book crammed with first-rate research; if anything, the spadework is a little too thorough. Collier's "the day that" formula has by now become wearily familiar. His dense, sludgy prose oozes little of the night's blood, sweat and tears, pays only stiff upper lip service to London's assorted heroes; most of them seem as anonymous as the dust that clogged their lungs...