Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paret lay limp and still, blood running from his eyes and nose. The cameras zeroed in for an endless moment, and better than any ringsider, the stay-at-home boxing buff saw the tragic picture of a fighter who had been all but killed in the ring. Next day, after an operation to relieve the pressure on his damaged brain, doctors gave Benny Paret "one chance in 10,000" to live. While he struggled to survive, boxing rolled with the punches as it took one more public pasting...
...much as she needs him. "Now she has all the best that is Italian," says Carlo frankly, "Neapolitan gaiety and artistic sense, and Milanese sense of proportion and balance, which she learned from me." For the rest, they are silent. "The one who loves very much," Sophia tells the endless strangers who ask for The Real Truth, "talks little about it." People say that Ponti serves as an image of the father she never had, but she treats him as if he were her own little boy. They say he is her Svengali, but at most he is only...
...while, Per&243;n built his dream of world power for Argentina. With war-built exchange reserves of $1.6 billion, he bought the telephone system, the decrepit British railways, plus endless equipment for such enterprises as a battery factory, a merchant marine, airlines, petrolieum refineries, motorcycle factories. He subsidized wheat and meat for workers' tables, de-emphasized them as exports unbefitting a modern industrial nation. Everyone, high and low, sizzled steak for lunch...
...from around the world protested; the López Mateos regime finally brought Siqueiros to trial in January. In a tiny, dingy courtroom the artist stole the show with a three-hour speech ranging from his youthful years in politics to the present panorama of Mexican art, to the endless betrayal of the 1910 Mexican revolution by every regime down to and including the present. It was a stirring offense, but not much of a defense, especially considering several personal insults Siqueiros aimed at the presiding judge himself...
Piel first raises the serious matter of general scientific ignorance. People have learned to accept science as a source of endless improvement, material comfort, and abundance, yet most the exact workings of science are mysterious. "Ironically, science itself seems to have fallen heir to much of what remains of the frightened awe formerly accorded to the outer darkness...