Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...makes them roll over and die at a point where most other animals would be fighting for life." As for chicken bones, cats can handle them better than dogs can. Baths, another idea that makes old-fashioned cat keepers cluck with horror, not only help a cat with the endless job of keeping clean but also minimize the problem of "hair ball"-a nugget of hair that forms in the stomach as the result of all that licking and preening...
...into perhaps the most thoroughly nationalized state outside the Communist bloc. In a series of sweeping decrees, he has taken over almost all major or middle-sized factories, stores, virtually outlawed annual earnings higher than $15,000, limited landowners to a scant 100 acres. Warned Nasser: "Socialism is an endless road, and nobody knows how far it will be necessary to travel along it." On that endless road last week, Dictator Nasser planted some new, ominous signposts pointing toward even tighter one-man rule...
...worrisome to the Christian Democrats: the Free Democrats' insistence on curtailment of welfare state programs, recognition that West Germany's Bundeswehr should be equipped with nuclear weapons, a beefed-up defense budget (from $2.75 billion to $3.4 billion) that would take priority over all other expenditures. After endless wrangling, Adenauer agreed as well to a coalition committee that will pass on all government policy statements to the Bundestag, and a new Ministry of Development, handling foreign aid programs, which had been vehemently resisted by Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard...
...role. She has become introverted, turned in on herself, and has broken off contact with the world that she no longer knows. She was unable to capitalize on the revival of interest in religion after the war, is depressed about her failure in mission, and contents herself with endless surveys and meetings in an effort to knock something together that might get her off center...
Wozzeck, Good Soldier Schweik and Private Hargrove. Bone-tired from flying endless missions (the required number is always raised every time he becomes eligible for Stateside shipment by the evil Colonel Cathcart, who wants to be a general), Yossarian decides one day to go crazy. Doc Daneeka, the flight surgeon, agrees that he has to ground anyone who's crazy; all one has to do is ask. "And then you can ground him?'' Yossarian inquires. "No. Then I can't ground him." "You mean there's a catch?" "Sure there's a catch...