Word: endless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is the faint question that comes with the endless wind. How long before this drought tumbles the old records? Then what? Malard shrugs. The last good rain he felt on his face was in August 1987. In March of this year a 10-in. blizzard roared in and hit his area. He waited it out in his house, daring to hope that this was a break in the dryness and that a normal spring of rain would follow. It did not. Instead came the heat and the wind. Malard gets up every morning by 6 and checks...
Battle after battle Malard fights with this capricious force called Nature. Right now, it seems, he is losing more than he is winning, but he is a man of almost endless patience. Nature, he knows, will sooner or later grow weary of its tantrum. When it does, he will still be around...
...envision that scenario when talk turns -- as it increasingly does nowadays -- to Japan's growing influence. The very prospect of such pressure, however remote, is part of a subtle change in the way Americans view the Japanese. No longer is Japan seen simply as a tireless competitor and an endless source of high-quality goods. Japan's successes have been so spectacular that they seem ready to burst beyond economic bounds...
...here lay the basis of our education's demanding nature as well. In teaching us approaches, our courses and tutorials act with the faith that, once inspired, we will continue to read and think on our own. Indeed, they assume that we are now properly equipped to begin the endless process of educating ourselves...
Life is tough for Soviet women. Really tough. Overworked and underappreciated, most of the Soviet Union's 149 million women fight an uphill battle simply to survive the daily grind -- an endless race against time in the effort to juggle job, housework and child care. The average Soviet woman has few modern conveniences, gets little sympathy from the boss and virtually no household help from her husband. She nurtures only limited hope that the situation will change anytime soon. "I have a great admiration for the women of the Soviet Union," President Reagan told Soviet reporters...