Word: endless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...undeserved. That book, too, didn't have much interesting to say about its clever premise, namely that the cost and shortage of housing in New York City is forcing many young, single women into dependent relationships with older men who own their own apartments. Hence, readers were treated to endless, repetitious variations on the theme that these women are Slaves of New York...
Kwitny, a Wall Street Journal reporter and author of Endless Enemies, finds the beginings of the Nugan Hand story in documents that establish the CIA's involvement with Chinese Nationist forces in the 1950s. During the war, according to official records Kwitny quotes, the CIA smuggled drugs to finance the forces of Chiang Kai-shek forces. "With the kind of people [CIA operatives] were dealing with up there, the whole economy was opium," according to John J. O'Neill, the Far East regional director of the Drug Enforcement Administration. "I have no doubt that Air America was used to transport...
...onward we spin once more, glory of youth, until one nosecount later we realize that Ginsburg #1 had jumped out in an acid freak at the moonface's first arrival and, now wandering in the evil endless desert all alone, had missed the whole weird entirety...
...Pacific port of Vladivostok, less than 40 miles from China. At the same moment, on the Bering Strait across from Alaska, the easternmost edge of the Soviet world is well on the way to an Arctic noon. And in Moscow, ten time zones to the west over an endless expanse of tundra, forests and inland seas, it is half past midnight, and yesterday has just ended. Not for eight hours will the commuters to the left head for their jobs in the capital from suburban Zagorsk. In the Soviet Union, more than anywhere else on earth, a day is here...
...nearby baby-sitter every workday, Figgatt has more time for him in the morning and evening because she no longer has to commute 35 miles each way to company headquarters in Hartford. She finds her new life comparatively relaxing: "I don't miss the daily rat race, the endless meetings, the constant distractions at the office...