Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Settlement looked out on some of the most terrible nightmares of the contemporary world - the Japanese attacks. "In the months and years which followed the rape of Nanking, ten million Chinese had been killed, fifty million driven west, more than a hundred put in subjection under puppet regimes. . . . For endless miles [Shanghai's] sidewalks be came the bedroom of a million refugees." A "baby patrol" went the rounds each morning, piling up mounds of dead children "like stacks of firewood...
Outwardly, the great Chicago plant of Montgomery Ward & Co. seemed to operate as if nothing had happened. The long rows of bundles poured out into trucks; long rows of typists filled out the endless ills & orders. Company executives, except those at the very top, sat in their offices supervising work, initialing memos...
From day to day Europe could be certain of only one thing: the cruel, relentless hammering of the air preparation for The Day. The Continent's target cities groaned under the endless thump of bombs...
...Nazi radio boasted nervously of the strength of the western fortifications; Nazi bigwigs were busy at the endless ceremony of inspecting them. Adolf Hitler himself was reported to be making the rounds of the forts, following in the wake of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, anti-invasion chief...
Parachutes bloomed in fluffy skies as airborne troops rehearsed their desperate act. Cowslips gleamed in English meadows and harebells nodded by English streams as toiling infantrymen sweated and wriggled through the final stages of their training. Across the pale green of awakening countryside, endless convoys lurched, Bren gun carriers clattered, jeeps buzzed and tanks clanked. Assault troops splashed wearily ashore on countless nameless stony beaches; the thunder of artillery practice on Salisbury Plain mounted toward unbearable climax...