Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quick to point out that the Kennedy policy of meeting each "Red probe" as it occurs is inadequate since the Communist bloc is committed to the practice of endless probing...
...politics, Ch'ang feels that "American university students are ignorant in the extreme." The reason for this is that "the United States is a country full of secret agents. Political persecution is perpetrated in an endless stream." Ch'ang tells his readers that "whoever utters the slightest sound of discontent is immediately suspected as a communist...His fate is thus sealed...
...marrow to jelly." That is how Sir Roy Welensky, ex-boxer, ex-train engineer and for five years Federal Prime Minister of the Central African Federation, describes certain "metropolitan countries," presumably including Britain. Reason for Sir Roy's wrath:the situation in Northern Rhodesia, latest on the seemingly endless list of African trouble spots...
...fill of suffering in World War I, but the image he carried away with him was the dazzling light of a breechblock gleaming in the sun. When he visited the U.S. some years later, he found beauty not in the lofty mountains or endless plains but in the hectic pace of the cities and their neon gaudiness. He painted the human figure, but said that for him "the human figure has no more importance than keys or bicycles. These are for me objects of plastic value to be used as I wished." He could consciously ignore the rules of perspective...
...President's foreign policy speeches are nearly always impressive, although they frequently leave listeners wondering if, after all, a rhetoric demanding sacrifice in the face of endless struggle is entirely congenial to values outside the cold war. Yet last night, explaining why it is that the U.S. has decided to resume atmospheric nuclear tests, Mr. Kennedy abandoned much of his customary, suspect, rhetoric. Addressing the substantive parts of his argument to a relatively small, relatively sophisticated, and passionately concerned section of the populace, he constructed a detailed and closely reasoned justification for testing that can scarcely fail to be extra...