Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promised to be operating inside Cuba by May 20, was exposed as a bungling amateur. Worse, Fidel did not have to lift a finger. The British, with an assist from the U.S. Coast Guard, put the damper on what was surely the most ludicrous act yet in the endless, tragicomic opera of anti-Castro moves...
...Much for Drugs. Price rises in drugs and prescriptions are a source of endless and usually fruitless argument because of the medical revolution since the sulfas appeared in 1937. The average price of a prescription before Pearl Harbor was 93?; by 1956 it was up to $2.62, and it is now $3.10. Prescription items used to be less than 10% of all drug sales; now they are more than 30%, and they add up to a big business of more than $1.5 billion a year. With bulk buying of drugs by hospitals and government agencies, and massive sales...
Pike & Watusi. The ultimate amusement really comes with the fair's endless cosmopolitan touches, both great and trivial...
...Presbyterian moderator's tasks are largely ceremonial, but Edler Hawkins (his life is an endless battle against people who spell his name "Elder") nonetheless becomes chief spokesman for a church that is 95% white in membership. A 1938 graduate of Union Theological Seminary, Hawkins has held only one ministry in his pastoral career, at St. Augustine's Church in a somewhat slum-ridden section of the lower Bronx in New York City. He started the church from scratch, with a congregation of nine; today it numbers 1,000, about one-third of them Puerto Ricans...
...meetings. Kappel has special controls behind the rostrum at which he stands to cut off any speaker who becomes too windy or unruly. But he delivered his most effective cut with out benefit of switch at the April 15 annual meeting, where a professional meeting-goer asked a seemingly endless round of questions, including one seeking to know how much A.T.&T. gave to charity. Told that the amount was $10 million last year, the woman said: "Mr. Chairman, I think I'm going to faint." Replied Kappel coolly: "That would be helpful...