Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wood was classified as an element, along with air, fire, water and earth." The "five categories" of China are metal, wood, water, fire, earth. Air is not one of the five. Fire, air, water and earth are the four elements of the Greek thinkers. The five categories form an endless cycle: wood giving birth to fire, fire to earth, earth to metal, metal to water, and water to wood again...
...another item in short supply is old-fashioned common sense. Herewith TIME'S all-purpose, endless-winter survival guide, as composed by Senior Writer Michael Demarest...
...obvious. His prose moves fitfully at best, is downright turgid at worst, and is obviously better suited to the front page of a New England town newspaper than the inside of a classy $10 hard-back. Always the reporter, he is long on detail and short on interpretation. An endless stream of names, places, death tolls and other gruesome details flashes past, making the book itself a hurricane of facts that often leaves the reader bewildered. There is no real weight, no meaning attached to the cyclone of detail--and when Allen attempts an occasional bit of philosophy, the effort...
...that, the book succeeds. What it lacks in depth and style, it makes up in sheer power. The seemingly endless flood of names and numbers, the innumerable tales of heroism and cowardice, the continuous demonstrations of the storm's savagery, all add up to a compelling narrative, a hymn to the brute force of nature. The scenes of hundreds swimming through storm waves in downtown Providence, of thousands fighting back flood waters in New London, Conn., of train crews outracing deadly tidal waves and of desperate sailors straining to keep their 1000-ton vessel from from running aground on inland...
...quintessential master of a game that would no longer be familiar to present-day players. He was a slapdash hitter who careened along the basepaths and the endless outfields of the old ballparks with reckless abandon. He had an uncanny sense of the strike zone and surprising power for a man who stood only 5 ft., 4 in. tall...