Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Divorce, Author Lewis, who teaches medieval literature at Oxford, takes himself and a load of jostling, quarreling passengers from a twilit, drizzly city of endless streets to a fresh meadow at the foot of a cloudy mountain range. "The last thing I wish is to arouse factual curiosity about the details of the after-world," Lewis warns. But the grey city, he realizes, was Hell; he and his bus-mates are spirits on an excursion. Damnation is not final; they may stay in Heaven if they choose...
Except for a few artist friends, no one thought much of his work. The one exhibition of his paintings was a fiasco. But when he finally died at 36, in the Hópital de la Charité, 25 years ago this week, Paris flocked to his funeral. An endless cortege of artists and models followed the hearse to the cemetery. Along the way gendarmes, who had arrested him with painful regularity, saluted the flower-decked coffin...
...berg's courtroom. But even the arrogant Nazi war criminals could not work up much enthusiasm for wishing each other Prosit Neujahr (Happy New Year). Slowly but surely the case against them was building up. The Allied prosecution continued to pile up evidence, detailing their guilt with an endless chain of chilling facts. The civilized world, like the Nazis, might have become bored with these horror stories-a U.S. reporter muttered: "0 God, more of the same!"-but the prosecution had more to tell...
...stood alternate watches night & day, four hours off, four hours on. Bad weather seemed to follow the Erma. For weeks her people endured the racking eccentricities of her progress from grey gully to dirty crest of endless rain-pocked seas. But 62 days after leaving Stockholm the Erma lay anchored under a hot sun off the green hills and white buildings of the Island of Madeira. They wanted to go ashore, but the port authorities said: "No Communists wanted here...
...Washington the world's hunger and pain were written down in neat columns of figures. The endless statistics from UNRRA headquarters in Washington remained just figures...