Word: exhaustive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris contained a greater proportion of Communists than had ever sat in a French parliament. The Reds were not interested in playing the game of ministerial musical chairs the Third Republic's politicians loved so well. But they were quite content to let the "third parties" exhaust themselves-and France-at the old game...
...Suggested answers should exhaust all reasonable alternatives. Question 33: "If Harvard continues to have losing football seasons, would you favor dropping football? (1) Never (2) No (3) No opinion...
...most vivid literary images are devoted to the military art. "Guerrillas," he once wrote, "should be as cautious as virgins and as quick as rabbits . .. [They] are like innumerable gnats which, by biting a giant in front & rear, ultimately exhaust him." He exulted in armed struggle: "A Communist war which lasts ten years may be surprising to other countries, but for us this is only the preface . . . Historical experience is written in blood and iron." No warlord has left a more gory trail of death than Mao, not since the mad General Chang Hsien-chung, who slaughtered 30 million...
...Throne Room. John Hartford moves at a pace that would exhaust younger men. In good weather he walks the 18 blocks from his weekday suite at the Plaza Hotel to mid-Manhattan's Graybar Building, throne room of A & P's vast empire. At 9:30 sharp he strides through one of Ralph Burger's offices, turns right into his own thickly draped, richly paneled office. At 11:05 a.m., Mr. George arrives. Not till both are in can any important matter be settled. Since they share equal power in A & P's affairs, both must...
...Real Toot. The fiction, moreover, is in good part fact. Novelist Schulberg* was one of the young devotees who in the early '30s sat around Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood, watched his creative fires exhaust themselves under the Hollywood pot, and remembered how those fires had lighted a generation on its way in such novels as This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby...