Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will not be the exuberant, swinging blowout that began the Kennedy years, with a seemingly endless inaugural parade and partying through the night. For four days, the capital will whirl sedately with genteel Republican merrymaking, beginning with an All-American Gala in the District of Columbia Armory, produced by Ed McMahon of the Tonight Show (see TELEVISION). For $10 to $100 a ticket, the guests will get Ed and his boss Johnny Carson, Dinah Shore, Lionel Hampton, James Brown, Marguerite Piazza, Tony Bennett, Hugh O'Brian and Hines, Hines & Dad. The night before Inauguration, Salt Lake City...
...called the process "ripening" and likened himself to an inchworm reaching out tentatively into space from the end of a leaf. "I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have a foot ing," he said. The result was that each canvas, with its endless layers of paint drying at different rates, was sure to crack and darken with...
...child's choice of handedness, while others maintain that heredity is all. Little is known about the problem beyond the fact that the left-hander must learn to fend for himself in a world that seldom pays any heed to his special needs. Production lines grind out an endless assortment of tools and equipment designed solely for the righthander, with only occasional exceptions for lefty. Left-handed golf clubs can be found, but usually they must be specially ordered; there are also left-handed ice-hockey sticks and baseball mitts. Sports, as it happens...
Lasky raises valid questions about Kennedy's zealous pursuit of Jimmy Hoffa and his tendency at times to make cavalier statements on Viet Nam that could have been too easily misinterpreted by Hanoi. But these get lost amid endless sniping at Kennedy's wealth, protective friends, staff-written speeches...
...Mainz, Germany-and he often told students: "Don't repeat what I have said. Learn to think for yourselves." He tried firmly to shun theological fashion, and his constant goal was to bring men back to the authenticity of God's word. Today, Barth's endless, old-fashioned commentary on this message may appear to be an obstacle to that goal. Tomorrow, it may well be read afresh as a vivid encounter of a great thinker's grappling with the divine unknown...