Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years to the case of Alger Hiss. I remember his accusers and defenders, his typewriter, his Ford and his Petersboro trip, the apartment he subletted and the carpet he received. I recall the facts and the denials, the interpretations and the re-examinations, the two trials and the endless press speculation. It has been almost a quarter century since the jury convicted Alger Hiss, and since then even more information has been dredged up to the surface. We have more details, the picture grows more complete, but somehow we know that we shall never have a satisfactory answer...
...government-controlled shops, such staples as sugar and tea-no Cairene worker can exist without endless cups of the sweet, muddy substance each day-have not risen in price. Those who try to supplement their meager ration on the black market, however, have found that the unofficial price of sugar has jumped more than a third; the price of tea has risen by 94%. Beef and lamb are available only twice a week, even in restaurants. Yet no one suffers too much: alternatives include chicken, fish, pork, ham, sweetbreads, brains, tongue and squab. Most Cairenes tend to stay home these...
...plateau is reached money has little bearing on happiness. And once the money is earned there comes the burning desire to find new ways to spend it and eke just a little more pleasure out of it. These and other things keep us on a treadmill, expending not only endless amounts of oil and gas on unsatisfying enterprise, but wasting our very humanity itself...
...hesitant, unheralded beginnings of a new medical specialty: cardiology. Dr. White nurtured and grew with it: for almost half a century his name was synonymous with the study, treatment and prevention of heart disease. Last week, as the American Heart Association was preparing to add to White's endless string of awards, death-from complications following a stroke-robbed him of what would have been a most appropriate honor...
Still, the Islamic view of the world in a sense pitches it into an endless struggle against the rest of mankind. Islam sees itself as a universal religion, with a formula for order and justice that Allah intends the entire world eventually to accept. That obviously clashes with the ancient vision of the Arabs' cousins in Israel, who have a different covenant with God. Such spiritual implications may not have started the latest Middle East war, but they certainly nourish the hostilities, making them more difficult to stop-and easier to start again...