Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father left the family when Boris was very young, and the future champion was raised by his mother. Fischer, too, was deserted early in life by his father and raised by his mother. Her name, incidentally, was Regina, a fact that has given Freudians an opportunity for endless speculation. Unlike Spassky, Bobby is considered by Fine to be a perfect example of the hero players, "who use chess to satisfy their fantasies of omnipotence...
...endless, extremely cautious: "Alabama, hugh? You a relation to George Wallace...
...Soviet cities. For example, there is no such thing as a commercial office building in the Soviet Union, and a storefront in an apartment house is currently the best that the country can offer. Waiting periods for telephone and telex communication with home offices in the U.S. can seem endless. Nor can a U.S. businessman in Moscow place an ad in Pravda for secretarial help; secretaries must be supplied through a government agency that deals mostly with diplomats...
...that even a Washington speechwriter might discard as overly florid. As portrayed by Jones, the hero is certainly fulsome enough to be a major political figure. Joseph Sargent's direction is energetic, consisting in large measure of dogging his actors with a mobile camera as they bolt through endless doorways along the corridors of power. -Jay Cocks
...such a realm, as a character in this latest Tracy novel reflects, "the declared friend was the secret foe. What looked like perfect peace was in truth an endless, confused shindy about nothing of any importance...