Word: limitless
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...fairly with Grant as well, although the general in chiefs meat-grinder warfare down through the Wilderness and Spotsylvania to Richmond amounted to a kind of condemnation of the man, no matter what his ultimate success. Grant sometimes spent soldiers so profligately that at last even the seemingly limitless manpower of the North seemed about to run out. At Cold Harbor, Lee devised such an intricate system of crossfires for the ill-prepared Grant that as Foote says, "never before, in this or perhaps any other war, had so large a body of troops been exposed to such a concentration...
...Brien is no romantic. He doubts there ever was a Camelot. "What there was, rather, was an extraordinary, dynamic young politician who was able to inspire this nation, to bring out the best in us, and to appeal to our nation's limitless wellsprings of hope and compassion and decency." Making no claim to writing talents, O'Brien is aware that such terms are cliches. But it is a measure of the book's achievement that the reader is convinced that phrases like "bringing out the best" and "compassion" hold much meaning for Larry O'Brien...
...from having limitless funds to finance both a growing army and an expanding economy, the country will actually soon be capital-short. Says Dr. Abdul Majid Majidi, 46, a technocrat in charge of Plans and Budget Organization, the superagency that draws up and carries out the Shah's five-year development programs: "In three years' time we will be coming into U.S. and European markets to borrow. We can absorb...
...artifacts increased from 5000 to 22,000 items. Completely new exhibits were installed between 1969 and 1971 and plans made to renew them on a rotating basis each year. Obsolecence never diminishes the appeal of a presidential museum; out-dated exhibits can-- and are--replaced to illustrate a seemingly limitless range of subjects. The new visitors reception center will have an auditorium for 300 people. There is already an auditorium in the library building where a movie "A Place in History" is shown eight times a day. Three hundred new parking places are being provided. To make room for these...
...press that can transfer to a T shirt any picture, design or message in full color, major department stores such as Manhattan's Macy's and Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott and hundreds of small T shops across the country let buyers pick from an almost limitless selection of designs and sayings-or fashion their...