Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever-present bugaboo of registration and big game football standing endless hours in lines--has been attacked this year, in an effort both to shorten the wail and give more efficient service...
...Kremlin, open to all citizens under the Czar, was tightly closed; Red Square, where once Muscovite merchants had inspected parades of prospective brides, was given over to endless military shows. The Truba, a noisy quarter where children used to buy pet robins or wrens to set free on Annunciation Day, was quieted down; birds were rarely set free nowadays -for one thing, they served as food, and for another, the symbolism of freedom involved was frowned upon. The Kremlin chimes no longer played Glory to our God in Zion; instead they played the Soviet Anthem. But the people still clung...
Clearly, Flynn regards as immoral this candidate who pocketed money intended to bribe voters. The candidate sinned against organizational "loyalty." This preoccupation with the law of the pack, and a resultant spinning of endless judgments on "right" and "wrong" deals, wraps the practical politician in unreality...
Buried deep in Finland's endless pine forests some 40 miles south of Rovaniemi, on the edge of the Arctic Circle, is the little community of Varejoki. The people of Varejoki, struggling desperately to keep alive and to create a new life for themselves, are a strange assortment. There are 50 Finnish farmers-mostly refugees from the northern district of Petsamo, now Russian territory-who live with their 300 children in lean-tos and shacks. There are several score prisoners-mostly short-term smugglers and black marketeers-who live in improvised barracks almost without guards. And there...
...Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood, pre-Pearl Harbor leader of the America First Committee, who concluded that Europe was finished, who suggested that 20 to 30 million Britons, Belgians and Hollanders should move elsewhere, and proposed to write Europe off except for some "charity." There was endless grumbling, particularly in the Midwest, about U.S. exports of goods and foodstuffs. But millions in the U.S. were resigned to the idea that something had to be done in Europe-and that the U.S. seemed to be elected. There was a surprising willingness to support any plan that Secretary...