Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...later, he bowed to the teacher's urging and packed the boy off to Paris to enter the Conservatoire. For over a decade before records began to spread his reputation, Andre took any job he could get: TV commercials, jazz dates, concerts in the Michel Legrand orchestra and endless La Bohemes in the pit of the Opera Comique. Says he: "Look, every day for 44 years, my father went down into the mines with a smile on his face. How can I not be happy playing music...
...Israelis, having failed to win decisively, were left with a sense of defeat. The indecisive outcome of the war also uncovered a number of festering problems that had been obscured by the post-1967 boom. In the past year, Israel has been afflicted by a seemingly endless series of troubles: internal recriminations, personal mourning, governmental turmoil, economic malaise...
...hard-pressed for vehicles. At Fort Knox, the chief tank training center in the U.S., the few tanks available are rotated from one school to another. The drain on American reserves has caused some grumbling in the Pentagon, where generals complain that the Israelis come in with an endless shopping list and "want more and more, faster and faster...
...thing, the army may only be trying to prevent any reduction of the great power it has held in the provinces since the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1969. For another, the military leaders, who tend to be relatively conservative and rigid, may feel that the endless leftist experimentalism of Mao Tse-tung has retarded China's development. A secret Central Committee circular of last summer, which found its way out of China only recently, reports on production declines in key industrial areas, as well as popular disaffection with Mao's latest ideological movement, the campaign...
...only prison term and has stayed off it since he got out three years ago. But he takes in coke, pot and wine as naturally as most people breathe. He is also a clothes junkie, and whenever he is flush after a few muggings, the money goes in an endless effort to look "fly." Platform shoes are a hazard to his trade, since fast getaways are critical, but he wears them even when mugging because "they are the style...