Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which caused his endless mirth...
...Great Society has become a Great Flop." Although she dodged specific questions with her famous dimpled smile, she did offer some strong general opinions on two inescapable issues. "It is not progress for the largest, strongest military power in the world to be mired down in an apparently endless war with one of the smallest and weakest countries in the world," she said. Though she wants the U.S. to "honor our commitment" in Viet Nam, she argued that it should be done quickly...
...needed 45 minutes to drive the two miles from the airport's entrance to the Eastern Air Lines terminal. Another left Greenwich, Conn., early enough to reach Kennedy a full hour before his scheduled 8:30 p.m. Swissair departure, only to find himself at the end of an endless, motionless line of autos when he got to the field. Both missed their flights...
Under constant taunts from their captors, the artillerymen were forced to crawl, wallow in mud, hang by their legs from a horizontal bar, sit for seemingly endless minutes with their legs wrapped painfully around a pole. The guards badgered them for information beyond the maximum-name, rank and serial number-sanctioned by the Geneva Treaty. A sympathetic "Red Cross" representative tried to wheedle additional intelligence out of them, but most immediately spotted him as a phony...
However soon the Russians can get the planes ready, Gowon has yet to find the pilots to fly them. All last week Lagos was alive with rumors that foreign mercenaries were on the way-Egyptians, Algerians, Swedes, Finns-the nationalities seemed endless. But the only flyer who actually showed up was the 69-year-old "Black Eagle of Harlem," Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, who hinted that he could supply a squad of Negro-American pilots...