Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minister Mendès-France skipped lightly over certain qualifying facts: Marseilles' tonnage is mostly for Allied military use; for almost two years before the 1946 harvest is in, the nation will have to import its bread. But France, tired of endless greys, welcomed the first rosy hues...
...while such doughty fighters as Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley and Samuel Butler were openly questioning the authority of the Church, the Rev. Mr. Dodgson was doing his utmost to quiet the tormenting questions that filled his brilliant, inquisitive mind. Cursed with insomnia, he would put himself to sleep by endless inventions of games, gadgets, toys, puzzles in mathematics; by day he would take a daily walk of 20 miles at top speed. At best, he would find release from "the sin of thinking for himself about religion" by turning his worries into innocent literary fantasies - such as the remarkable passage...
...decisions made during the war (Poland, Greece, Rumania, Yugoslavia, etc.) be re-viewed at the final peace conference. This proposal may have provoked W.W.C.'s outcry about imperialism. Pundit Walter Lippmann, frankly in favor of spheres of influence, cried that Senator Vandenberg's suggestion would cause "endless confusion." But Harold Stassen, internationalist, has also insisted that any world organization should include provision for peaceful change as it is needed...
...beer brewed. Spurred by advances in the field of biochemistry and the pressures of two wars, the employment of microbe labor has recently spread to a whole new field of chemical manufacture. Little is known of the actual metabolic process by which microbes work, but by careful control and endless experiment chemists and biologists, working together, have been able to set them hundreds of chemical tasks...
Girl Scouts & Young Republicans. The Russian people struck Bill White as being very like Americans. In endless tours of factories (everything in Russia from a farm to a hospital seemed to be called a factory) he saw young, earnest, sober-minded executives, who looked exactly like the businessmen at a U.S. junior chamber of commerce luncheon. They were Communists just as their American counterparts were Republicans, "because it was the party of respectability and its hallmark would be helpful to a young man anxious to get on in the world." The Komsomol, or League of Young Communists, seemed to White...