Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting, attended by 20 people, ended hopefully. "I see endless potential," Mahnke said. "By the time this center is working and we have 100 children, we'll be pushing the President out of his house for more room...
Died. I. Rice Pereira, 63, noted abstractionist painter; in Marbella, Spain. She once described her style as a system that seeks "plastic equivalents for the revolutionary discoveries in mathematics, physics, biochemistry and radioactivity." Her cool paintings were made up of carefully plotted blocks, lines and dashes in endless variations. She reached her peak in the early '50s, when she was known for her geometric patterns painted on sheets of fluted and rippled glass, which were then placed one on top of the other so that refracted light jabbed through in a dazzling spectrum...
Despite a Teutonic tendency to grandiloquence and repetition, Sajer is brutally effective. He puts lice on that armchair reader, gives him an empty belly, and sticks him in a frozen mudhole. He loses him in the endless space of that "accursed Russian plain." He makes him feel the ache of the Russian winter, 35-40° below zero-the temperature at which, when a soldier urinated, three or four of his fellows thrust their cracked hands under the stream for momentary warmth...
Although there have been endless proposals launched, new housing has not kept up with demand in Cambridge. And with property values rising every day, there isn't much money to be made in low-to-moderate income housing, the level most sorely needed. Only the wealthiest of resources can acquire property and permission to build...
...this saves millions in unneeded prison construction. But it fills prisons with a higher ratio of hard-core inmates who disrupt the rest. And because of indeterminate sentences, California "corrects" offenders longer than any other state by a seemingly endless process (median prison stay: 36 months) that stirs anger against the not always skilled correctors. Says one San Quentin official: "It's like going to school, and never knowing when you'll graduate...