Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flame. In the capital city of Kampala strings of electric lights illumined the facades of churches, mosques and Hindu temples. Thus Uganda this week became the fifth African nation to gain its freedom in a year, and the 28th since 1956. Even informed observers are becoming dazed by the endless roll call of big and little new nations that sound more and more like commuter stops on a train to Timbuctoo: Gambia, Upper Volta, Chad, Dahomey, Mali, Gabon...
...sister has 31 of them, but for Princess Margaret, 32, it was her very first royal equerry. He is Major Michael Patrick Andrew Mitchell, 34, a tall bachelor from the crack Coldstream Guards, who will serve as a surrogate squire for Meg at those endless official functions Husband Tony may prefer to miss...
...problem of how best to examine students has never been an easy one, and in opening discussion on this point the Committee on Educational Policy may lead itself, into a morass of endless, impassioned, and boring argument. Yet there is surely no doubt that discussion is worth the trouble, for if even one or two ideas are exchanged--and there will surely be many more than one or two--the University's educational system will be strengthened...
...Though De Gaulle's proposal would short-circuit the constitution and has already enraged politicians of all parties, his grandiloquent dialogue between "you Frenchmen and Frenchwomen and my self" only heightened the curious blend of awe, irritation and amusement with which most Frenchmen today regard their President. Through endless anecdotes, his mordant wit and sovereign self-assurance have become as firmly lodged in the French imagination as Cyrano's nose...
Join, Join, Join. No sooner had each boy been hit with his first-term bill ($1,307.50) than he was deluged with requests to rent sheets and refrigerators, teach slum kids and visit mental hospitals. There were endless tests, physical and placement, pep talks from coaches and proctors, two presidential teas, and tryouts for everything from the Crimson to the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. There were endless forms to fill out, and endless appeals...