Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baltic people were known to the world as a highly literate, vigorous peasant people, used to fighting for the reluctant fruit of their poor land. They have a stolid dignity, yet are cheerfully devoted to simple, inexpensive pleasures. In the summer they used to go swimming along the endless, pine-studded beaches of the Gulf of Riga, often in the nude (the early part of the morning was reserved for men, the latter part for women, and police saw to it that none of the early bathers overstayed their allotted time). During Midsummer Night, they would swarm through their vast...
...first on the Fourth five years out of eight.) They stayed on top, and lost to a better team, the Cardinals, only after a postseason playoff. To do it, Durocher used no less than four first basemen, four second basemen, eight third basemen, nine outfielders, four catchers, and an endless parade of pitchers. It was a remarkable performance, but by Durocher's own standards he was no hero in Flatbush; he lost the championship...
...endless column, several hundred taxis churred past the gleaming Montevideo office building that houses the U.S. Embassy. No others (except for emergency calls) were on the streets. In this reproachful fashion, Monte cabbies protested last week against the beating of a fellow driver by U.S. sailors...
...case. The 14 stories in It May Never Happen are proof that a first-rate critic may also become a fine storyteller. Pritchett's reviews in London's liberal New Statesman and Nation are highbrow; they are also incisive and discriminating. Pritchett considers his story writing "an endless chewing of the cud of experience, an effort to digest; and also a desire to fill up the unfurnished wastes of time which surround the goggling...
...Million Eyes. Last week, as Britain's Royal Family wended their triumphal way through Africa (largely for the purpose of introducing Princess Elizabeth to her polyglot future subjects), she was often tempted to yawn. For weeks she had been through an endless procession of official receptions, tedious reviews, soporific speeches and tiresome dedications. On Tuesday, at Pietermaritzburg, there had been a presentation of local dignitaries, a civic luncheon party, a reception at the stadium to meet the white colony, a reception at the race track to meet the natives, a garden party at the Governor's mansion...