Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strikes have cost 162,872 man-days on missile-site construction alone. So undeniable is labor's share in the failure that last week President Kennedy set up an eleven-man mediation board to settle without strikes labor disputes involving missile and space programs. But in the endless, echoing corridors of the Pentagon-and even within industry itself-there is a growing feeling that a large share of the blame for what is wrong must go to the U.S. missile manufacturer...
Twenty-seven years in India's elite civil service gave brilliant, Oxford-trained Rajeshwar Dayal an elegant diplomatic manner and endless Oriental patience. But this was hardly enough to prepare Dayal for the heat, hatred and hurly-burly of central Africa when U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold named him chief of the U.N. mission in the Congo last August. Almost before Dayal had settled into his glass-walled office in Léopoldville, chaos broke around his head. Erratic Patrice Lumumba wanted protection in his refuge in the Premier's residence. From his own villa near by, President...
...gently urged Hammarskjold to keep Dayal in Manhattan indefinitely. Finally, last week, controversial Rajeshwar Dayal announced his resignation. As soon as he can pack his bags, he will return to his old job as India's High Commissioner to Pakistan, where good diplomatic manners and endless Oriental patience still had a certain value...
...nations on earth have as cliched a relationship as do Canada and the United States. Even Canada's complaints are frequently endless echoes of the same old hat--excessive U.S. business domination, cultural influence, free wheat dumped on potential Canadian markets, and just plain policy dictates...
Along with his fellow astronauts, Shepard submitted on the ground to all the possible privations of space flight. He walked on endless treadmills, sat with his feet in ice water, endured two hours in a room heated to 130°F. and three hours in a soundproof, totally dark chamber. He took countless psychological tests. His torso was tattooed to mark the spots where electrodes would be attached for medical measurement...