Word: countless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extracted in minute quantities by highly complex processes from vats in which countless billions of colon bacteria, Escherichia coli, have been grown...
...Lunch." Dr. Wright, 66, counts himself one of the fortunate exceptions to the general retirement practice: professional men, such as physicians and lawyers, and the self-employed, such as small businessmen and farmers, can go on working as long as they want. Far different is the situation of countless men at all levels in business and industry. On an arbitrary date, the executive who yesterday was worth $200,000 a year is worth nothing but his pension. The blue-collar worker may begin to draw social security, but it is not enough to live on; if he works part time...
Died. Ferdinand Louvat, 53, French pastry chef at the White House, hired by the Kennedys in 1962, who whipped up countless delectables for dignitaries and topped off his career with the Texas-sized (13 tiers, 8 ft. tall, 300 Ibs.) wedding cake he baked for Luci Johnson last year; of a heart attack; in Bethesda...
...Jarrell the gamesman. He and Lowell used to sit in an empty classroom playing "Who's First?", a game in which they would downgrade fellow-poets until they were the only two left at the top. From his youth, he loved tennis and he lavishly admired professional football, spending countless Sunday afternoons in front of his TV and eventually making Johnny Unitas a figure for the poet's craft. Once, while a house guest, he lost a croquet game to some children, and his hostess detected him at 5 a.m. the next morning on the front lawn, rearranging the wickets...
...preached the need for greater Christian responsibility toward the world's poor in countless sermons and pastoral letters. Léger was also an advocate of church renewal at the recent Synod of Bishops in Rome, where he made his final decision to quit his archdiocese. "It was during the discussions on faith and atheism," he explained, "that my future became a question of conscience for me. It became clear that Our Lord was asking me for deed as well as words." On the final day of the Synod, Pope Paul reluctantly approved Léger's request...