Word: countless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel that on account of ... countless war widows and orphans ... I should waive collection of a pension . . ." the letter stated. "I cannot, in good conscience, receive ... Government assistance when so many of my less fortunate sisters and their children are not yet taken care...
...even know what they were working on. This bothered them only when they thought that the project, whatever it was, might fail. Du Pont, still trying to live down the "merchant of death" tag, worried most of all. If the project flopped, they were aware of the countless investigations they would face for years to come. As General Groves said, his mind on the $2 billions spent: "If it works, Congress won't investigate it. If it doesn't work, Congress won't investigate anything else...
...wartime years many a good Canadian had been breaking the Federal gambling laws-in church halls, social clubs, athletic arenas, countless office buildings. Prosecuting authorities had always looked the other way: the gambling had been in "a good cause." The millions of dollars painlessly extracted in Dominion-wide lotteries, raffles and bingo games had bought milk, food, clothing, and even planes for beleaguered Britain...
Considered coldly, the Los Angeles housing situation was not much different from that of most other big U.S. cities. But Los Angeles was not considering it coldly. Last week virtually every landlord was certain his constitutional rights were being ground under the heel of a psychopathic bureaucracy, and countless tenants were convinced that they were soon to be 1) homeless, 2) victims of the vastest, most blackhearted swindle in the regrettable history of man. So the atmosphere was not unlike that around the lifeboats two minutes before the Titanic went down...
Still the people kept coming. Days afterward an endless procession still passed through the rock-strewn lot; a hundred men & women an hour knelt down at the place on the hill to ask for a miracle. For in the big city there were countless others who, like Joe, wanted something wonderful to happen...