Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That the U.S. will be paying for rehabilitation, not for mere relief which would open up endless vistas of spending...
...Grace. She learned to enter a room gracefully by rehearsing it hundreds of times under her grandmother's watchful eyes, mastered the curtsy by practicing endlessly with a heavy encyclopedia balanced on her head. But these and other accomplishments were merely part of the endless process of character building. "The Lord's part of salvation could be left to the Lord to attend to, but our share had to be worked at diligently...
Unions could be harassed to death with endless litigation. The requirement that the NLRB seek an injunction whenever a boycott or jurisdictional strike was charged by an employer was "clearly a backward step toward the old abuses of the labor injunction...
What Will Happen? But these maneuverings were remote from the India of mud and dung and (endless toil, which wondered in bewilderment what was happening to it. The little man in India had never asked for Pakistan or Hindustan or even for independence, except when his leaders told him. He was scarcely aware who ruled him. Recently a tattered Hindu peasant helped to repair a blowout on a car in the Punjab. Asked what he thought of the Government in New Delhi (now a temporary, joint Hindu-Moslem Cabinet, operating under viceregal veto), he replied, "I never heard...
Oriana Atkinson liked the Russians enormously, admired their unfailing kindness as hosts, was touched by their uncomplaining acceptance of endless labor for pathetic rewards. In other ways, too, her reactions were typical of U.S. visitors to Moscow. She was annoyed by the sloppy workmanship everywhere, by the suffocating snarls of red tape, by one-party ballots which made elections a farce, by the fear of ordinary citizens to speak without looking over their shoulders. She saw prostitutes solicit openly (the Soviet Government proudly claims that it has ended prostitution in Russia), found beggars everywhere, watched black-marketeers operating in public...