Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vain Bosses. American women are the victims of "endless competition" and their own vanity, are incapable of "spiritual submission to or harmony with a man." Usually pretty enough to afflict a visiting foreigner with the "buck ague," they rarely have enough character to be beautiful; they are their husbands' bosses, but are incapable of passion or intimacy...
This anonymous doggerel is a cry of honest frustration to many an officer snarled in the modern army's endless red tape. One such officer is Lieut. Colonel Francis E. Gillette, instructor in the Army's Command & General Staff School (Fort Leavenworth). Writing in the current issue of the erudite C. & G. S. Military Review, Colonel Gillette quotes the verse and mourns: "General Marshall and General McNair, among others, have issued warnings that paper work should not be allowed to interfere with training. But . . . like the weather, everybody talks about it . . . no one does anything about...
There is nothing left of Chicago style. Bud Freeman employs endless quantities of notes, as do many others, the short phrase has been substituted for long, closely-connected solos countless times, the ensemble was really Dixieland in the first place. There are only a group of men, the Chicagoans, and they are truly great...
...some dressed in dungarees, some in zoot suits, coasted in on Pan-Am Clippers. Then came a batch of 60 in a huge Army transport. Few days later, 76 arrived by boat; by week's end 850 Bahamians were on their knees, pushing hampers between the endless rows of bean vines...
...confuse the enemy, to force him to look every way at once; above all, to get around to his rear and make him believe himself hopelessly surrounded - this was the Japanese method. In the endless green of the forest a few cyclists, a handful of snipers and a liberal use of firecrackers could force exhausted British troops to expend the strength they needed against the far more deadly, incessant attack from...