Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...limbered his lariat Hoffa went on talking soothingly. It had cost a fellow teamster chieftain, Dave Beck, endless time, abuse and trouble to round up Seattle's merchants, laundries and dry cleaners, back in the '30s. And Hoffa had learned plenty about trouble himself under the tutorship of Detroit's tough Bert Brennan-a teamster boss he had lately outstripped. Hoffa hoped to prevent a stampede, shoo Detroit's 6,400 into the corral in a body and close the gate as softly as possible...
...piglets have to be hand-fed with ground feed (chop) prepared according to a dietary formula as carefully worked out as a human baby's. At present, when the protein ingredients (chiefly soy and linseed meal) are often practically impossible to get, pig-feeding is not only an endless labor but a perpetual headache...
Swift has cut his ten and 20-mile hikes to strolls of three miles, to match his age. He walks backwards, up & down hill, warned by his solicitous brethren as he approaches obstacles, and keeping up an endless commentary on plants, rocks, insects, animals, and human nature...
Above all, there were the endless words of praise for the departed, well larded with excuses for his weakness. "It was not so much that the principles of the League were rejected," mourned its ancient champion, 81-year-old Viscount Cecil, "[as that] the governments seemed to think all they needed to do was to give . . . tepid approval...
...life, he observed that he had spent 30 years training himself to make decisions which would cost human lives. "You don't sleep any too well from it," he said quietly. Now the General's job is patching up shattered lives and straightening out war's endless disorders. The hazards and responsibilities of this peacetime assignment, in some respects, are greater than any he ever had in wartime. But the General sleeps better-and millions of U.S. veterans could sleep better because...