Word: countless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...busy intersection of Sixth Avenue and Eleventh Street, buttonholing passersby on behalf of the Women's Pentagon Action. "Would you like to sign a petition against U.S. military intervention in Central America?" she asks. For the 37 years she has lived in the Village, Paley, 62, has engaged in countless curbside solicitations as well as rallies, demonstrations and sit-ins. Her causes have been as local as keeping traffic out of Washington Square Park and as global as U.S. nuclear policy...
...will need industrial-strength Vaseline Intensive Care Lotion to heal his face after the razor has left it as dry as Utah. This is not a man who will accidentally leave a spot of shaving cream on his carlobe and not notice it until 4 p.m., by which time countless people will have determined that be is an idiot...
Tens of thousands of volumes of Chernenko's collected essays and speeches and countless propaganda posters emblazoned with his quotations could not quite conceal the flaws of a man whose only real claim to power was his skill as a Communist Party functionary. Nor could they dispel the fact that Chernenko had come to power with little time to live. The record of his brief tenure in the Kremlin was etched with the painful images of his faltering struggle to rule and hold back the ravages of illness...
Coach Cleary was forced to pair Farden with classmate Don Sweeney, but the duo responded well and the Crimson's defensive backbone, Taylor and Benning, played its usual strong game, despite taking countless shifts...
Boston residents have their own theories on why Bean Town jumped from 18th to second place. Harvard Social Scientist David Riesman (The Lonely Crowd) thinks that media exposure helped. Doug Flutie, the former Boston College quarterback, he notes, "is quick, brainy and made it on countless telecasts." John Updike, who lives in the exclusive suburb of Beverly Farms, cites the economic factor. "When I came to Harvard in the '50s, Boston was fairly grubby," says the novelist. "Now if you have the money, it's a nice place to live...