Word: limitless
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...been elected to that body as a liberal hope and he was (and is) fond of making analogies between Harvard and his experiences there. With his reputation as one of the best and brightest secure both in Cleveland and at Harvard, his opportunities seemed just about limitless. In the better watering spots of Cleveland, it is said, Calkins was touted as a possible successor to the mantles of Jack Kennedy and John Lindsay...
...down and govern according to his good judgment, and the queens of all the things that have been or ever will be could marry and be happy and give birth to many sons and the common people could set up tents where they damn well pleased in the limitless domains of Big Mama because the only one who could oppose them had begun to rot beneath a lead plinth. The only thing left then was for someone to lean a stool against a doorway to tell this story, lesson and example for future generations, so that...
...course these are just a few examples of the limitless applications of the balance of power to pro sports. With new pro alliances emerging every day, including the powerful tennis and track leagues, there is no sign yet of an end to sports world applications of Morgenthau's balance-of-power theories...
...highly articulate world such as the world of theatre--where modern techniques of acting and staging have made communication between performers and audience almost limitless in possibilities--it is at once astonishing, and yet perfectly logical, that we should find a sudden revival of interest in one of the oldest spectacular arts in existence: The Art of Silence. This Art--called Mime--is as ancient as civilization, and yet is one of the least practiced and most difficult of dramatic forms. It has always had its interpreters, but since the days of the pantomimists of the Commedia dell'Arte...
That something persists today, and it remains one of angling's surest lures. Its name is failure. No matter how fine his equipment, no matter how limitless his patience, it is the angler who is cast most often as the poor fish. The odds, as always, still favor the quarry; yet to the true fisherman that very failure is a kind of triumph. His sport lacks the com pulsive pursuit of hunting, the dizzying zest of mountain climbing. But it grants something else: a philosophy - an acceptance and ultimately a grudging admiration for unyielding nature. It is that philosophy...