Word: boundlessness
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...borrow up to $5,000 to start a new business if he can convince the Agency's directors that it would be profitable and proper to set him up selling typewriters or toe-nail clippers. Within the rather vague limits of propriety, the opportunities for future hucksters seem boundless...
Each British ship was kept in good trim and worked by a crew with boundless confidence in its ability to lick the French. Britain's defensive precautions were superb. Agents, who reported to London the least move of any French warship, were stationed all around the coast of Europe, even in French ministries. At the mouth of every French port lay a British squadron, its sails forever visible on the horizon, its quick frigates ready to race for reinforcements should the French move...
...bigamy: "To carry out my mission would I have to become . . . lord and master of a harem?" But Ilouhi finds him Crey the Bahnar huntress, a wild creature from the inner jungle. With the appearance of Crey, Riesen is surprised to discover in the de voted Ilouhi "that boundless distress which is as old as the world itself." A new relationship develops in which Rene finds that Ilouhi can "have the same sort of dreams as a white woman," but in the ef fort to share her thoughts and influence her mind he finds that she is "slowly lead...
Nations which get their independence by exercising a boundless nationalism often appear incapable of keeping their nationalism within boundaries. A case in point: the inchoate Republic of Indonesia, which cannot govern itself but claims half of New Guinea. Another: Egypt, which had hardly said goodbye to the British before it was reaching out for the Sudan. But these claims hardly match those of the new Sherman Empire of Morocco, which until a year ago was a part-French, part-Spanish protectorate. Fanatical Moroccan nationalists have staked out a claim to a slice of northwest Africa roughly equal in area...
...Egyptian demonstrators celebrated the withdrawal of the Franco-British invasion force, they expressed their hatred of all things European by blowing up the statue. The great builder would have been neither surprised nor resentful. Irrational violence, betrayal and humiliation dogged him all his long life without dampening his boundless optimism or shaking his firm belief in the essential goodness of man and the basic harmony of nations...