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Word: endless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...object was to get one or more mavericks who would contradict the majority and thereby hang the jury. The stratagem did not work. Last week, after nine months of endless testimony and agonized deliberations, the seven-man, five-woman panel that had convicted Charles Manson, Leslie Van Houten, Susan Atkins and Patricia Krenwinkel also recommended the death penalty for all four. Then Judge Charles Older did something unusual: he commended the jurors for service "above and beyond the call of duty." If it were within his power, he said, he would award each member a medal of honor. Concluded Older...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Life Among the Manson Jurors | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

...radio this morning said the Allied invasion of Laos had bogged down. Without thinking, I nodded and said, 'Good.' And having said it, I realized the bitter truth: Now I root against my own country. That is how far we have come in this hated and endless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Battle Fatigue | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

...only by means of a meandering plot-line that all the characters are connected in one way or another. The construction of the plot, in fact, invites comparison with The Edge of Night or Secret Storm, but the subjects treated in the series have more range than the endless marriage/adultery/abortion/divorce variations of the more conventional soap operas...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: Soap Operas Harvard Square | 3/31/1971 | See Source »

...expression. Or perhaps soup as a study of differing structural systems; soup, thought and reality; soup and time-sense on the Fiji Islands; levels of expression through hot and cold soup. Uses of soup in American literature. How many cooks spoil the broth?-a narrative essay. The possibilities are endless, and therein lies the essence of Harvard...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Beautiful Soup Is Hardly a Minor Concept Or, Introductions to Radcliffe Are Best Taken With a Grain of Salt | 3/23/1971 | See Source »

...wait seemed long, endless; the Interview itself barely lasted five minutes. I was thoroughly Prepared, but they didn't even care, and even though they didn't care, I blew...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Beautiful Soup Is Hardly a Minor Concept Or, Introductions to Radcliffe Are Best Taken With a Grain of Salt | 3/23/1971 | See Source »

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