Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There they came, streaming into Washington filled with plans and programs and hopes and fears and endless ambitions. They were the members of the 88th Congress, preparing to convene this week...
Between sessions of Congress, Mills goes home to Arkansas, making speeches, meeting with an endless flow of constituents in his office in Searcy, traveling back-country roads to chat with voters in his basso drawl. Mills has a safe seat, has not had any opposition for the Democratic nomination in his district since 1944?but he behaves as if a formidable challenger were eternally at his heels...
...women, for his kinfolk, for his children, who needed his protection, and whom he could not protect; rage, hatred, and murder, hatred for white men so deep that it often turned against him and his own, and made all love, all trust, all joy impossible-this past, this endless struggle to achieve and reveal and confirm a human identity, human authority, yet contains . . . something very beautiful . . . That man who is forced each day to snatch his manhood, his identity, out of the fire of human cruelty that rages to destroy it knows, if he survives his effort, and even...
...memoir is a lovingly conducted tour through what obviously are the stage settings for The Leopard. The best of this recollection begins with Lampedusa's description of the annual family removal from Palermo to the vast summer house at Santa Margherita Belice. The train ride seemed hot and endless to little Giuseppe. There were no toilets aboard; the family bought a cheap brown chamber pot for him, which was thrown out the window just before the end of the trip. The summer house was a vast affair that the author describes as "a kind of Vatican." There were...
...occupy Assam, especially since India's determined show of national unity, and the West's evident willingness to support India to the hilt. There is a significant indication of one Chinese anxiety in the cease-fire offer. After warning that renewed war will "bring endless disaster to India," Peking says: "Particularly serious is the prospect that if U.S. imperialism is allowed to become involved, the present conflict will grow into a war in which Asians are made to fight Asians, entirely contrary to the fundamental interests of the Indian people." Implicit in those words are Red Chinese memories...