Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Endless honors have already testified to the scientific achievement of those hectic days, and modest Dr. Wigner has received a valuable share-the Enrico Fermi Award ($50,000), half of the Atoms for Peace award ($75,000). Last week he got his highest accolade: half of the Nobel Prize in physics...
...looking for was a form of democracy within the discipline of war. Few doubted his intentions, but few forgot the paths of other soldier-leaders after the first pure bliss of revolution. "For a moment, imagine that another government replaced this one," Diem once ruminated in one of his endless soliloquies. "It could not help but result in civil war and dreadful dictatorship...
...biggest, fastest troop lift ever attempted. For three days and three nights, the endless whine of jet engines and the thunder of a thousand propellers pierced the air at a dozen U.S. airbases from Texas to Virginia as 206 Military Air Transport Service planes hauled 15,278 soldiers to bases in Germany. Normally it would take six weeks to transport a full division overseas, even longer to get it into combat. Big Lift was designed to move a full armored division from the U.S. to Europe in 72 hours, equip it with heavy hardware "prepositioned" at depots near the front...
...group of children move between dreams, Passion plays, and a sort of endless hiding game in which the state is "It." There are imaginary angels, Roman soldiery, Marthas and Marys galore and child tramps who may or may not be held to represent the Three Kings of the East...
...cannot market his personality, the scholar can devote himself to "the cult of tidying up," answering phone calls in the office and writing the endless letters of recommendation which, Hughes confided, "represent a serious drain on one's stock of adjectives...