Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years elevated trains kept Manhattan's Sixth Avenue in shadow and a perpetual uproar. Early wood-burning locomotives dumped cinders down the necks of people on the street below; later electric cars went overhead with a clattering roar like garbage cans rolling down endless flights of stairs. In the shadow of the "El" taxis wove wildly among pillars, and in the murky streets blocks of laundries, pastrami shops, employment agencies, dingy bars and doubtful bookshops grew like mushrooms...
...ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much; Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world...
Almost all suffered from malnutrition. Few had ever received Red Cross packages; their guards, almost to a man, had engaged in graft which cut prison fare to watery soups, half-spoiled vegetables, and chalky gruels. They had been beaten and kicked, forced to bow, to obey endless rules invented by their captors...
Around Washington, Frank McCarthy was a boy wonder about whom no one knew very much. Like General Marshall, he was a V.M.I, graduate. His work for the General had been confidential. At State, his job will be to streamline the Department, bring order out of the endless paper shuffling...
...electric back-washer, consisting of a framework which straddles the bathtub, with an endless scrubbing towel rotating over two rollers, one immersed in the water...