Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hands of the Viet Cong, conditions in the South held their own horror. One prisoner was buried up to his neck for days. Another, who was suffering from dysentery, was denied medical assistance and finally suffocated in his own excrement. For those well enough to walk, there were endless work details. Army Major William Hardy, captured in 1967, figures that the Viet Cong "treated me like a slave" because he is black and "they believed all they heard about Negroes still being treated like slaves...
...there any way to stop the endless increases in both taxes and bureaucracy? One political newcomer whose more or less serious answer is attracting increasing attention is Mogens Glistrup, 46, a Copenhagen attorney and head of the fledgling Progress Party. His solution: stop paying taxes altogether. Anything less drastic, he says, is "almost immoral...
...does the militant Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army get its apparently endless supply of weapons? Tangible evidence has been hard to find, but one speculation has been that the arms come in by sea. On a dark night last week, the Irish navy (all four vessels and 140 men) made a rare catch that proved that speculation well founded...
...that Absolute. Above all else, the Hindu desires a release from the physical world of appearances in order to realize his identity with Brahman. This oneness is not easy to achieve; it is the reward of the holy man, who can then finally break out of the cycle of endless reincarnations...
...thought of wine and grinned to herself. The world is a broken Ripple bottle. Yes, yes, a ripped apart Ripple bottle. Some still glistening fragment attracted her eye and absorbed her. Timeless. Rhythm of timelessness; timeless ocean waves. Her endless drift of unconcerned thinking. A sailing without a goal, or known beginning. A hum started out of her sea-faring self; a song of bright, free ships...