Word: countless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western way of life for five or six generations. The African, an extremely likable and excitable person, still thinks and lives in a world of his own, and cannot catch up in less than two generations, however hard he tries. Civilization cannot be learned from books. What about the countless fiery speeches of Banda and his followers in which they promised every Congress member a car, refrigerator, big house, etc., when the whites are kicked out of Nyasaland? Are these the words of responsible leaders? Is it so difficult to understand that Britain can safely allow this sort of nonsense...
Thus among the countless traumas a freshman may fall heir to, an agonizing struggle in Hum 5 or Phil 1 with Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is evidently one of the most severe; many a small town has lost its most promising Baptist in those ordeals, and many a fashionable parish the scion of its most prominent Episcopalian. Freud's Moses and Monotheism or The Future of an Illusion must provoke nearly equal distress; one atheist passes up all alternatives listed on the questionnaire and writes, "God is man's interpretation of what dissatisfies him.... A rejection...
Lola has behind her countless different jobs-radio actress, stenographer, switchboard operator, photographic model. She says that she never really wanted to pay the price that Hollywood demands for stardom ("You become everybody's personal property''), but by 1946 she was there, like a thousand others, sitting around on sets, earning little more than the right to join the extras union. She finally landed a meaty role in Champion, with Kirk Douglas and Ruth Roman. The picture, says Lola, "set up Kirk and Ruth. Afterwards. I couldn't get a job. I went to New York...
Price never forgets the housewife in planning his houses, has introduced countless innovations to save time, labor and space. In his 1960 line of all-aluminum French Regency houses, he has installed a "traffic-flo" bathroom with two entrances to cut down traffic jams...
...Evans, Helen Hayes and Julie Harris handled similar chores. No one on the Steel Hour sees any reason to search for a new formula. Even in the summer, when other shows are sneaking by with reruns, the Steel Hour will remain live, with lively casts, the names familiar from countless Broadway marquees. Like the careful pilot who wants to be not the hottest guy in the air. merely the oldest, the Steel Hour will settle for its present status: the oldest live dramatic show on television...