Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night in October 1942, "Manila John" Basilone (his endless store of Philippine yarns had won him the nickname) lay wet, miserable and alert in his foxhole. He heard the sudden crack of bullets. The Japs were attacking...
...time after graduation, Gould earned his living by reviewing books. "Now," he says, "book reviewing is done by machines," and he considers himself a victim of technological unemployment. For many years he has devoted himself to the epic "Oral History," which he describes as a compendium, seemingly endless, of everything he has seen himself or been told first-hand in all parts of the world...
...city had no time for dreams; like a battered prize fighter, it could only lie panting, waiting for some small return of strength. Endless blocks of homes lay in charred ruins. Most buildings were damaged; everywhere piles of glass-spangled rubble spilled into the streets. It was robbed as well as wrecked: the Japanese had stripped the Pearl of the Orient systematically of automobiles, refrigerators, furniture-everything that had been deemed worthwhile to ship to Japan...
Even for those whose husbands are still in the U.S. there is endless waiting. Said the wife of a flyer at Wisconsin's Truax Field: "I hope this war gets over with so my husband and I can be together for good. I'm sick of living in a hole in the wall and seeing him only once a week. I want to have some...
...seemingly endless columns, Zhukov moved up his men and his modern weapons. Supplies came in streams of trucks and wagons. Only a few miles behind the lines, supply dumps were established. If the need of fighting units was ammunition, it was forwarded to them. Rations might follow in a day or two. The Russian soldier quickly gets what he most urgently needs. The rest comes later...