Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gadgets that count, nor glittering automobiles doctored for high-octane gas and a speed of 90 miles an hour. Nor endless varieties of canned food, to make life easier for housewives. Nor any other of the impermanent signs of progress...
...boredom and browning off and endless practice in weapons, drill and maneuver that we have endured, something worth-while is rising in England. A Great Army is here too, terrible in power, destined to fame unequaled in all the splendid story of our country. On a day before long there is going forth from this island the finest body of troops our nation ever raised . . . soon the trumpets will be sounding the advance. Afterwards must follow the mournful rolling of the muffled drum...
Love & Hate. With the colorful Captain, Salathiel went on a tour of British strongholds, observing the ways of white soldiers and the endless struggle between them and the independent, ambitious native settlers. Indian attacks taught him to hate all redskins. His country, the new America, he found to be a land that began west of the Alleghenies, "the seeds of it . . . scattered in lonely cabins," where liberty was not a dream but "a state of nature to be successfully lived in." Slowly, surely, the forest was giving way to the fort...
...notes tell me that I am reporting only what I saw or verified; yet even to me it seems unreal: dogs eating human bodies by the roads, peasants seeking dead human flesh under the cover of darkness, endless deserted villages, beggars swarming at every city gate, babies abandoned to cry and die on every highway. Nothing can transmit the horror of the entire great famine in Honan Province, or the irony of the green spring wheat with a promise of a bumper crop which is not ripe for harvesting for two more months. Most terrible of all is the knowledge...
Aside from easy strafing missions against locomotives and bridges in Burma, there was not much to do except play badminton, lounge on big airy porches in the old stilted tea planters' houses, and stare out across the endless sultry tea fields. The enlisted men took to teaching Assamese kids American. They all wished the Japs would attack. Their C.O., Colonel Homer Leroy Sanders, had said: "If the Japs come over, all they will need is a one-way ticket...