Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visit, Khrushchev was taken to no factories, plantations or workshops, or even allowed to mingle with any real people. Instead, there were constant spectacles in the 90° heat of midday, with giggling maidens flinging hibiscus and frangipani petals on the sweating Nikita; there were gargantuan meals, with endless courses of Indonesian and Dutch delicacies (to which Khrushchev always brought his own sour black bread), and nights filled with the tinkling music of gamelan orchestras...
...cottage with a W.C. (water closet) and being misunderstood by someone else who thought that by some tortured leap of the jokemaker's imagination the letters stood for Wayside Chapel. Thus, the W.C. was nine miles from the house, could be visited only twice a week, etc. - endless possibilities. Little could the unsung, unremembered hero foresee that his creation would one day produce a major crisis in the American entertainment world, comparable at the very least to the firing by Arthur Godfrey of Singer Julius La Rosa or the appearance of J. Fred Muggs more or less alongside Queen...
...booked into the big time. Stints on Jack Paar's TV show and CBS's freewheeling Keep Talking got him national attention and a chance to be the kind of comedian he likes-a sad-faced funnyman whose effortless humor seems spontaneous but is the product of endless preparation. "People don't guffaw just looking at me," says he. "I have to compensate for that. I read obituary columns. I call hospitals and ask how things are in surgery. Little things that keep me sad. I shy away from people who say good morning. What we need...
...Cambridge. Although Teck was only an inconsiderable German principality, Francis thus won the right to join what the Queen herself called "the Royal Mob" of princelings clustering about Victoria's opulent patronage. They were an oddly innocent lot of hobbledehoys, but dedicated to their business-jobs and titles, endless meals and dressing up, places to live and places to die. Papa ("Der schöne Uhlan," the Mob called him) got himself appointed Honorary Colonel of the Post Office Volunteers. He dutifully went under canvas with his pugnacious battalion, but he was pretty much of a failure, declined into...
Roman Candle (by Sidney Sheldon), which closed at week's end, was a farce about an Army scientist pursued by a girl with extrasensory perception. The pursuit took place in back-to-back Washington apartments, with time out for launching missiles in Alaska and for unloosing endless gags about the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, horse racing, Eisenhower golf, lovemaking, martini-making and money...