Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Endless Disunity. The key to whether Khanh survives is, of course, the Buddhist hierarchy, which influences a majority of the populace. And it seemed impossible to satisfy the monks. They wanted more and more concessions. But hardly was one demand met when the Buddhist clergy whipped out another. At week's end, for example, they were clamoring for the head of the national police chief, who they said should be fired for having arrested Buddhists during the riots. Saigon's head monk, Thich Tarn Chau, handed the government his umpteenth ultimatum: If all Buddhist grievances were not resolved...
...Viet Cong for the most part lay low, taking full advantage of the chaos. The way things were going last week, they really did not need to keep fighting; South Viet Nam seemed to be paralyzed by its own endless disunity...
...Viennese reveled in the musicmaking of Richard Strauss, Lotte Lehman and Bruno Walter; they entrusted their psyches to Sigmund Freud and his rivals, and indefatigably dissected Stefan Zweig's novels or Joseph Schumpeter's economics in the city's celebrated cafés, fueling the endless talkfest with the best beer and coffee in the world...
...fact, began one morning last week when the President, conducting the appropriate ceremonies in the Rose Garden, signed the $947.5 million program into law with 72 give-away pens. "The days of the dole in our country are numbered," he promised fervently. "We are not content to accept the endless growth of relief rolls or welfare rolls. We want to offer the forgotten fifth of our people opportunity and not doles...
...many women demanded leather garments in Britain that the price of shoes went up. Honor plays Pussy Galore, the leather-sheathed leader of an Amazonian flying circus, in Goldfinger, the new James Bond thriller. Another face from Britain in Goldfinger belongs to Shirley Eaton, 27, blonde alumna of endless Carry On . . . comedies. No leather for Shirley: she appears once in a startling sort of bathing-suitless strap, later gets gold-plated from head to toe. "I end up dead," she says, "looking like an Oscar statue...