Word: endless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Monday fighting broke out again in the secessionist region of Abkhazia. On Tuesday Russian forces killed several Georgian guardsmen in the Abkhazian capital. Wednesday, hard-line nationalists attempted to open a new front in eastern Georgia. On Thursday Shevardnadze flew to Moscow to negotiate another Abkhazian cease-fire. The endless string of crises has set back his goal of building a democratic Georgia and taught Shevardnadze that his civilized style of negotiating, so admired in the West, does not work as well in a country where the other side is liable to pull out guns...
...cycle's first volume was The Ice-Shirt, a brooding narration of the settling of Greenland and Vinland. Fathers and Crows has six glossaries, endless footnotes, maps and epigraphs, a 47-page biography of St. Ignatius Loyola and nearly 1,000 pages. It relates Jesuit efforts to convert Huron and Iroquois Indians in the early 17th century, but the author prepares his narration so thoroughly that major characters are not introduced before the book's tardy midpoint...
During each presidential campaign, the press subjects itself to endless criticism about how reporters ignore the issues and only cover the "horserace" aspect of the election...
...defining moment in the history of the U.S. gay movement. By a macabre irony, the disease that wiped out so many gay men has given their survivors a sense of mature purpose. The crisis turned an often hedonistic male subculture of bar hopping, promiscuity and abundant "recreational" drugs -- an endless party centered on the young and the restless -- into a true community, rich in social services and political lobbies, in volunteerism and civic spirit. It made civil rights issues suddenly vital to young middle-class men who had not previously expected to seek help from the government. It awakened many...
...most of us idiotai, though, it is too late. Today's athletes were at the gym years ago, some since infancy, honing physical gifts with the huff-and- puff of endless gruntwork, the torturous frowns of coaches who could never be pleased and the sacrifice of the life and leisure that we take for granted. So who are we to begrudge them gold and glory? Grace and strength may seem perfectly natural, but they require painful perfection. Thus with the same envy, wonder and anticipation that the ancients experienced, we await a new round of Olympic spectacle. Let the Games...