Word: countless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington is jittery right now with countless conspiracies for favor and power. One of the President's longtime advisers, Lyn Nofziger, recalled last week that the world has come closer to Reagan than he has gone to it. The needle on the national compass may spin, but Reagan is as fixed and steady as true north...
...Frankie has now sold more records more quickly than any other group since the Beatles. "We're the image of England 1984," says Holly Johnson, 24, Frankie's vocalist. Others see something a little different. Wrote Rock Commentator Simon Frith, after watching tourists in London buy up countless knockoffs of the band's FRANKIE SAY T shirts: "I decided this was the final triumph of the 'new pop,' the eclipse of content by form...
...been nailed to a tree near an unmarked plot that has become the unofficial monument to those who died in the months following the imposition of martial law in December 1981. The inscription beneath the picture read KILLED BY SECURITY FORCES. For the mourners who added their candles to countless others flickering under the makeshift memorial, no other identification was necessary...
...their opponents refused to give up and dug out countless balls. Harvard eventually grew frustrated with its inability to kill the ball and that frustration cost them dearly...
...shift in momentum began to be felt almost as soon as the cameras blinked off on the first debate. In Manhattan on the morning after, Walter Mondale exuberantly flashed a double thumbs-up signal countless times to a crowd of tens of thousands that cheered as he led the Columbus Day parade up Fifth Avenue. In Cincinnati the next day, he swung a baseball bat after Ohio Governor Richard Celeste introduced him to another enthusiastic crowd as "the Louisville Slugger," a term the most zealous Democrat would not have dreamed of using before the debate in that Kentucky city...