Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increase infrastructure expenditures? Do we push all the training schemes he's mentioned at once and right away? Do we delay a middle-class tax cut in order to pay for it all, because the economy's so sour? These questions are crucial, and the list of them is endless. Simply enunciating what we call the Big Three major objectives gets you nowhere in real life...
...endless. There's the Pi Eta grunge factor, the PBH altruism thing--everyone has a club or a group of some sort. Where else would Nerds and Geeks establish their own society...
...hangers-on and big-wig fund raisers working behind the scenes for months who will be rewarded with a comfy spot somewhere in the Beltway in the new cabinet. While it's only natural that we'd like to know their names, we're also aware that this endless, boundless curiousity is a national sickness. For months we've welcomed the poorly written reams of over-analyzed crap about the election. Just think of all the breath wasted over smelly cigars and cups of coffee all over the country. Now the second it's over, we hop on something else...
Clayton argues that the "tide of endless wanting" that swamped him was a particularly salient characteristic of the Ford years: "The paradise of the flesh was at hand. What had been unthinkable under Eisenhower and racy under ! Kennedy had become, under Ford, almost compulsory." And he remembers all this activity as being comparatively worry-free: "Bodily fluids had no deadly viral dimension in the dear old Ford days; one dabbled and frolicked in them without trying to picture the microscopic galaxies within, the squadrons of spherical space ships knobby with keys for fatally unlocking our cell walls." This stands...
...even in my safe cocoon of liberalism, growing up on the left was a scary business in the '80s. The national popularity of Reagan and Bush seemed endless. I often wondered if there was some sort of nationwide hypnosis going on that I had escaped by not eating bananas or watching "The Golden Girls." By my first year at Harvard, I spoke of a Democratic president in much the same tone as the Red Sox winning the Series...