Word: countless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hesitancies, choices were not going to end abruptly when the gavel fell to mark its final adjournment. Weaknesses the Party showed - many a Republican politico fell into a panic when Republicans Knox and Stimson were appointed to the Roosevelt Cabinet (see p. 11); the Committee on Resolutions pondered for countless tormented hours over how to weasel a foreign-policy plank - and such weaknesses could not be dissolved by the magic of nominating speeches...
...week before it took place. Russia moved with unaccustomed speed to safeguard her frontier against conquest-drunk Germany. Out of the safe she brought charges that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia had formed a military alliance against her, promptly moved into one country after another. Half a million men and countless tanks took their places facing East Prussia. In any other week that would have been important news...
Against this pattern of shifting loyalties the refusal of many Americans to rally to the "defense" of traditional American values can more readily be understood. Harvard Seniors, and countless thousands who feel as they feel, do not oppose necessary defense measures for America if they are necessary and only for defense. They want a democratic arms program, by selective conscription if necessary; not the building up of an amateur and priggish military caste which will exert a tremendous pressure for war. They want a pan-American solidarity based on democracy--not a hemisphere defense program superimposed on commercial exploitation...
Meanwhile the Royal Navy, with the willing help of countless merchant seamen and a host of volunteers, strained every nerve and every effort and every craft to embark the British and Allied troops...
Last week Max had a shock. Believing that his entry into the Cabinet would provoke storms of protest from his countless enemies, he was touched when Britons responded to his appointment with loud applause. Even Baron Camrose, major Fleet Street competitor of The Beaver, came out handsomely in his London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post: "As one of the new ministers comes from Fleet Street, which has the best means of estimating his powers, we may offer warm welcome to the decision which has made Lord Beaverbrook Minister for Aircraft Production...