Word: endlessly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...found it difficult to drag the Colgate line more than five yards at a time. It wasn't until late in the game, when the Red Raiders found their ranks badly battered by a paucity of substitutes and a host of injuries who kept leaving the field in endless procession that the big breakaway came...
...moved from the Paris Peace Conference, its stale yammering, its endless skirmishes around the periphery of political war, into Germany. Byrnes's journey to Stuttgart was a move into the heartland. Germany, in the end, would be the great strategic battlefield. There the U.S. now stood, inviting Germans to stand on Western democracy's side...
...must obtain permission of the local German authorities or Russian commander to hold meetings; speakers and speeches must be approved by the Russians. The interminable list of SED rallies indicates that the party has little trouble obtaining permits. Other parties, as one discouraged CDU leader put it, "run into endless chicanery." He added: "It has developed into quite a set pattern. We plan a meeting and tentatively reserve a hall. We submit application for the meeting, but days and sometimes weeks elapse. By the time we receive the approval our hall has been taken by somebody else-for instance...
...square miles are occupied by only 72,524 people, 32,458 of them tuberculosis-ridden natives. It is rich, but its riches do it little good; its basic industries, salmon fishing and canning and gold mining, are owned in absentia. It has more coal than Pennsylvania, endless miles of virgin timber, many waterpower sites, but they cannot be marketed...
Most of all she had been impressed by Americans' free talk with no worry about who might be listening. It was something new to hear Government officials criticized by ordinary individuals, to go from city to city over huge distances without being stopped for passes and answering endless questions. American talk of food and goods shortages struck her as some kind of elaborate joke. She was buying now for Moscow, everything from a radio-phonograph to progressively larger-size clothes for the baby...