Word: endeavorment
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...patria at Khe Sanh when the President of the U.S. would be drinking friendship toasts in Peking and Moscow? Such a morally double-jointed approach to enemies seemed, simplistically but understandably, to be corrupt and treacherous. In addition, the blank finality of nuclear superpower showdown inherently reduces all military endeavor on the dogface level to a humiliating and horrible insignificance; prospective nuclear war, the big bang of the world's demise, also damages an idea crucial to the concept of military service to one's country: the notion of social continuity, of life proceeding after the smoke settles...
There was a mood of euphoria mixed with anxiety on the Endeavor as it slipped out of Little Torch Key. Aboard were two Cuban Americans from Miami who had paid the boat's captain $5,000 to take them to Cuba to fetch 17 members of their families. It was 18 miles from the Cuban coast that the first faint harbinger of trouble surfaced: a small runabout wallowing out of gas. We secured a line and towed it in. At Mariel, the harbor gradually took on the look of a water-bound tent city: laundry fluttering from the tethered...
...Though the academic classes usually prefer distinguish to inventing, this problem seems to overtax their capacity for distinction. We should not expose ourselves to repeated occasions for disagreement, bluster, and bitterness over something that is fundamental to us in exchange for something that contributes almost nothing to our basic endeavor as a university. It's a matter of common sense. So, once again, Harvard should get rid of HIID and get out of world politics...
Draper is a non-profit, tax-exempt corporation whose "principal endeavor continues to be the application of inertial guidance technology to the development of strategic systems for the Air Force and for the Navy..." the annual report states...
Most importantly, this performance escapes parodying its own seriousness. How strange then, after such an accomplishment, to follow up this fragile solemnity with Bugs Bunny and P.D.Q. Bach, as if to undermine the whole endeavor...