Word: countless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think that when a man reaches senior rank his mind automatically shuts? Such a generalization is ridiculous. Of course, there are some brass hats who are stuffed shirts. There are also countless numbers of them who are alert, open-minded men spending every ounce of thought, knowledge and energy they possess (and that is a lot) in running the Army and Navy with little glory and certainly not much understanding and appreciation to help them...
...Policy. Such a policy, apparently, has not yet been formulated. Or, if it has, it is still a deep secret. U.S. military policy is clear: blow upon blow until all resistance is crushed. But the application of shrewd statesmanship might save the final enforcement of that policy -and countless U.S. lives...
...enjoyed your sermon very much." Countless beamingly polite churchgoers so inform their preachers every Sunday. Last week the Rev. Robert E. Woods, veteran preacher of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, took the wind out of their sails. Said he, from the pulpit: "Sermons are not intended to be enjoyed [but] to instruct, to inspire ... to make you uneasy about yourself. Any sermon that doesn't do that has misfired...
...general election campaign was enlivened by shouts of view halloo last week as the Tory Party, in full cry, prepared to close in on Harold J. Laski, Chairman of the Labor Party. The occasion was a remark which Laski, professor of political science and author of 19 books and countless pamphlets, chiefly on the necessity of leftism, was alleged to have made at a Labor Party rally in Newark, Nottinghamshire. To a question from the crowd, Laski was reported (by the Nottingham Guardian, and later by Lord Beaverbrook's cockalorum conservative London Daily Express) to have replied...
...Fayette Black: "The Williamses have been convicted under a statute so uncertain in its application that not even the most learned member of the bar could have advised them in advance as to whether their conduct would violate the law. . . . [This] will cast a cloud over the lives of countless . . . divorced persons...