Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Himalayan Headaches. The personal and technical difficulties which had to be surmounted to accomplish this job and keep it going were Himalayan. For Wedemeyer it meant a twelve-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week job. Paper work and conferences were endless. The stream of visitors at the General's Chungking headquarters includes diplomats and production experts as well as military personnel. But from 4 to 5 each afternoon is reserved for the Generalissimo-and often Wedemeyer uses the hour to call on Chiang...
Snigeroff's Nose. Drunkenness was regarded as an affliction rather than a misdemeanor. Nobody except Helen minded the endless consumption of a beverage brewed by "tossing sugar, flour and yeast-and sometimes a handful of rice or half-rotten fruit-into a dirty butter barrel" filled with water and allowing the mess to "make" for four days. "Don't be silly," said Thornie, dismissing Helen's alarm at the battle royal which invariably accompanied this wassail. "The boys are just having a good time. Just like kids. . .They really enjoy...
...acres of special purpose Government-owned tools from their plants; 3) machine-tool manufacturers could deliver the some $40 million of new machinery needed to get back to the manufacture of 1942 models; 4) hundreds of subcontractors, each with baffling reconversion problems of their own, could start the endless flow of wheels, tires, textiles, special metals, the other 10,000-odd parts needed to put an automobile together...
...Germany, there was an end to foxhole life. But the captives and the war criminals were still coming in. The homeless trudged down the endless roads. The task of occupation had just begun, and many felt that the job ahead in Germany was just as important as the job concluded...
Eisenhower himself did not receive them. They did their talking to his chief of staff, brilliant Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, and officers of the Russian, British and French armed services. The final discussions went on through the afternoon and evening: there were endless technical details to be set down, mainly to guarantee the orderly transmission of surrender instructions throughout the shattered German military machine. Finally, at 2:41 a.m. on May 7, at a long wooden table, in the bare, map-walled "war room," the surrender was signed...