Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fall. The trouble was that it required fantastic strength to hold the egg for any length of time. Le coach, therefore, put les skiers through an exhaustive and exhausting daily ritual of deep knee bends with 60-lb. sacks of sand on their shoulders, forced them to climb endless flights of stairs, descend innumerable mountains to strengthen thigh muscles. On the slopes, he was the original martinet: barking orders to assistants through a walkie-talkie, charting every speed-slowing bump or hollow, taking the temperature of the snow with a rectal thermometer to be certain that precisely the right amount...
...American system of justice." The process is much swifter in federal courts, because judges-not attorneys-usually question prospective jurors. But even without the built-in difficulties of digging up unprejudiced jurors for Speck, the Peoria selection was destined by Illinois state law to be a seemingly endless process. Besides dismissal of jurors for cause, the prosecution and defense both have 20 peremptory challenges (meaning the dismissal of potential jurors without explanation) on each of the eight murder charges-making a total of 320. At week's end no less than 194 such challenges remained to be made...
...company official and crisscross the land until 1927, when she settled down in the U.S. to spin her impressions into novels, first Oil for the Lamps of China, a 1933 bestseller and 1935 movie, followed by six others (The Innocent Dreamers) centered in Asia and permeated with foreboding of endless strife because of the clash of races and cultures; of cancer; in Oakland, Calif...
...first wife, who was 18 years his senior, he married a comely blonde music student, Sarolta, who was 56 years his junior. She acted as intermediary and hostess for Kodály who, as the dean of European composers and Hungary's most revered citizen, received an endless stream of visitors in his Budapest apartment during his last years. A shy, slight, spade-bearded man with the face of an El Greco apostle, he admonished people to "go to the peasants. Hear them sing. You can't learn from musical scores only...
Offstage she is a sunny torrent of activity. "I squeak cheerfulness," she says, "in the face of adversity." She carries on an endless correspondence with her family, loves to have a good blub over their letters. To relieve the Manhattany, she often cooks up an enormous meal?one of her favorites is a lamb casserole crammed with raisins, garlic, apples, onions and lemons. She downs yoghurt by the pint, and has been heard to hail a taxi by imitating the shriek of a pewit?which she learned from a Northumbrian shepherd when she was nine years...