Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This aversion to mass murder of any sort, which grew with each year of the seemingly endless bombing, napalming and free-fire zones, explains why a growing number of people eventually including a majority of the American population, called for withdrawal from Vietnam. The continuing carnage sickened even those on the moderate right, and the unity against the killing gradually broadened...
...contingent comprised of freshmen and sophomores, boasting only one rower with previous compeittive experience, stamping the New England east coast crew scene with an idelible and indomitable "R," growing and excelling simultaneously, compressing the years of hard and extensive training into eleven short months, finding at long last after endless and fatiguing hours of aspirations, national limelight and recognition, finding its way on the cover of Parade and onto WideWorld of Sport, out-publicizing the publicity mongers from Harry Parker's den of masculinity, reaching parity from the pure sweat and anguish of eleven months of looking at the same...
HESS YNTEMA is back. Yntema, who in an astounding freshman year, defying the laws of age and experience, shattering the myths of Harvard impotence on a national scale, plunging, stroking, paddling through hour after hour, day after day of endless practices, traipsing in at early hours for morning work and again in afternoons for evening tune-up, zeroing in with the unfaltering regularity of a computerized missle, pursuing the ultimate target, the final goal, the quintessential achievement with the relentlessness of that missle, propelling up and down his 25-yard aquatic domain throughout the year, established himself as the premier...
...sharecroppers, they hold tenaciously onto their aristocratic facade hoping desperately for the Old South's return. The family is characterized by a savage stubborn streak and a suicidal recklessness, which contrasts with the demure tones of their surroundings. Faulkner's countryside is saturated with heat. The days are endless, windless, dissolving afternoons and slow silver moon of 'opaline tranquillity.' He peoples his book with "Negroes, slow and aimless as figures of a dark placed dream." And his characters' movements are "hushed,...sibilant...
...through a suburban sea of red tile roofs and manicured backyards planted with lemon and orange trees, past platforms packed with schoolgirls in turquoise tunics and schoolboys in maroon blazers. Aboard are 144 passengers, the train's capacity. They are young backpackers headed west, retired couples on an endless vacation, students, and an assortment of tourists...