Word: boundlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that his 97 volumes of autographs exceed the combined complete works of Bach and Beethoven. Although a contemporary of Corelli, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, and Telemann. Handel beggared their combined achievements with his limitless genius. Yet while the scope of Bach, Handel's only contemporary equal, is now fully grasped, the boundless wealth of Handel has been reduced to one or two operatic arias, a couple of organ concertos, the Water and Fireworks music, and the annual outrages upon the long suffering Messiah...
Until recently, the U.S. had a boundless faith in steady progress, a growing sense of social justice, a belief that federal cash would solve the nation's re maining problems. Yet a decade that began with a quest for moral grandeur has bogged down in the effort to keep society from exploding. Gone is the idea that a big power can safely fight a limited war against a small power. Instead, North Viet Nam forced the U.S. to spend $85 billion and lose moral prestige in much of the world. At home, vast New Dealish programs have failed...
Mayor Armand Isnard and his villagers were only too happy to oblige, and before long Madame, whose first husband made a fortune on a chain of newsreel cinemas, was lavishing her three boundless resources-romantic enthusiasm, energy and hard cash-on medieval restoration. She trained masons to lay a new roof on the chapel and made them do it over four times to suit her. The castle towers, which Mayor Isnard once threatened to tear down before they tumbled, now jut sturdily into the air. Two massive feudal gates again open and close off the town, and once-buried streets...
...accident, partly of the kind of political intrigue with which Viet Nam seems to abound. Before the Communist Tet offensive, Ky was much more than a ceremonial Vice President alongside his rival, President Nguyen Van Thieu. Liked by American officials in Viet Nam, who admired his charm, his boundless energy and his decisiveness, Ky retained powerful friends in the Vietnamese armed forces-an entourage rated strong enough to overthrow Thieu if it ever came to a showdown. But with Tet and the harrowing onslaught against the Saigon government, the U.S., for the sake of preserving unity in the crisis, could...
...Naked. If the instructions and exhortations to his soldiers before the battles can be credited, Giap's ambitions in the general offensive were boundless. The attackers were led to be lieve that they were really going to take and hold the cities and towns and bring the war to a quick and victorious end. The South Vietnamese government was to be smashed. The Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) was expected to desert to the Viet Cong in wholesale units. The Communists confidently anticipated that the population would welcome the attackers in a great popular uprising...