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Word: infinitum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forget those jingling aphorisms: "He who is ridden by a conscience/ Worries about a lot of nonscience;/ He without benefit of scruples/ His fun and income soon quadruples, "etc., but not ad infinitum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wry Sense | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

Zubercock's residence, fashioned after the Roman decadent style, contains all manner of sexual appliances--12-inch vibrators, lamps with tongues, ad infinitum--as well as a gallery chronicling the good doctor's 9,999 conquests. Snaporaz browses, flipping switches and enjoying the recordings of female groans, grunts, and squeals of pleasure, and then joins in the celebration of Zubercock's ten-thousandth performance. A troop of policewomen sporting highheeled boots and skin-tight, wicked uniforms disperses the party prematurely...

Author: By Deborah K. Holmes, | Title: Urban Cowboy | 5/7/1981 | See Source »

...major institutions is at a historic low; the mainline religious establishment is a dying, dried-out husk incapable of motivating people to search beyond egoism for the common good or to think to the future; the nuclear family is fast becoming a memory; and so on, ad infinitum...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: The Gospel of a Dawning Age? | 5/7/1980 | See Source »

These three incidents are just examples of the widespread racism in this university. No group is immune to institutional racism, from the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, to the Harvard Lampoon, to the finals clubs, ad infinitum. The only way to combat racism is to recognize it, then struggle to eliminate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTITUTIONAL RACISM | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

...saturate, Crane has already been slogging campaign that has, thus far, stressed style over content, Phil Crane owns a handsome visage, an endless store of historical quotes and a natty wardrobe. Phil Crane is a political operator who harkens back to other days. Quoting Lincoln and Jefferson ad infinitum, he always has the right smile or the right historical quotation; after months of practice, Phil Crane is smooth...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Asterisks, Stragglers and the Overlooked | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

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