Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once traditional three months, has been wisely weeded and pruned. I remember spending two weeks alternately sitting around baking in the sun and policing the area at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., while waiting for something to happen, but much of this sort of foolishness has been eliminated. Gone are the endless orientation lectures that used to provide an opportunity for a recruit to catch up on sleep while some clod stood before a map and explained where Scandinavia was as he pointed to the Iberian peninsula. By and large, gone too are the arrogant sergeants and junior officers who ordered...
...ENERGY. We're still living in a fool's paradise in this country. We have always thought that we could have an endless supply of cheap energy and we can't. We've got a major energy problem, but the American people don't believe it. We waste so much. We waste everything in this country...
...artist's reverence for the subtle peculiarities of his material is a characteristic of all the jades exhibited. The basic vocabulary of jade shapes was established very early in the Neolithic and Shang periods and for the next millenium generated a seemingly endless language of creative inspiration. The oldest jade carvings are flat, rounded pi disks ranging in size from a foot to a few inches with circular perforations, and ritual reproductions of Neolithic stone tools such as axes, chisels and knives, and of Bronze Age weapons like dagger-axes and spearheads...
Welles becomes a sewer rat; every exit is covered and his seemingly endless ability to scramble in and out of huge blocks of misshapen rubble is exhausted. The underground chase goes on for a little too long--any recent film like Bullitt could give us a more varied and exciting sequence, probably with helicopters and Jensens and a pyrotechnic climax. Major Calloway is a wiser, more upstanding policeman than any (although Ironside may be a close second) but he is part of the irrelevant, whodunit part of the story...
...sights more dramatically mirrored the alarming slump in the nation's most important industry in recent months than the seemingly endless rows of spanking new unsold Chrysler cars cramming Detroit's huge Michigan State Fairgrounds. Then, two weeks ago, in a desperate move to boost sales, Chrysler began temporarily offering cash rebates to buyers of its new models-and set the stage for what amounts to one of Detroit's rare full-dress fire sales. Within a week, Ford rolled out a rebate plan of its own, and now the industry's giant, General Motors...