Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reasons. Shocking to the professional U.S. adviser as such performances may be, there are some understandable reasons for them. The Vietnamese have been fighting for 20 years, in successive generations of young men, and the whole military fabric is frayed by the invisible cumulative fatigue of what seems like endless war. The long years of combat have taken their toll in officers, often the best; so, too, have the coups and intrigues of Saigon politics over the years...
...junta also seeks to reform Greece by issuing an almost endless list of dos and don'ts. A few outlandish decrees, such as the ban on beards, were prudently withdrawn, but others have stuck. The junta has blacklisted the works of nearly 300 Greek and scores of foreign authors, some Red, but others simply liberal, such as Senator J. William Fulbright. They have stripped Actress Melina Mercouri and some 400 other Greeks abroad of their citizenship, because they have "lost their Greek soul and conscience." They have banned Who's Who in Greece; it devotes too many pages...
Having scraped the bottom of the barrel, the makers of spy films are now scraping the sides, the top and even the outside in a frantic search for new stories. The spoofs are endless permutations of the number 007; the serious efforts are apt to be repetitions of Hollywood war games originally played in the 1940s...
...Wyndham Lewis (1884-1957), British critic, novelist, painter, polemicist, gadfly and editor of the short-lived and incendiary artistic magazine, Blast. This partial autobiography, written in 1937 and now reissued, proves that Lewis could give as good as he got. His book bristles on almost every page with his endless resources for insult. Ezra Pound, after a first impression, was "a cowboy songster"; T. S. Eliot was "a Prufrock who would 'dare' all right 'to eat a peach'-provided he was quite sure that he possessed the correct European table-technique for that ticklish operation...
Most people who gamble do so only sporadically. But perhaps as many as 6,000,000 are compulsive. To help them, Gamblers Anonymous was founded ten years ago, modeled after A.A. In chapters in 80 cities, regular group-therapy sessions pile up endless case histories of gambling victims. One compulsive gambler tells of robbing his children's piggy bank and selling pints of his blood so he could have one more fling at the dice; another recalls how he absconded with the money for his father's funeral and blew it on the ponies. "You act just like...