Word: limitlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mining engineers pronounced the deposit virtually limitless, and that spurred everyone on. According to the landowner's rules, each newcomer was allowed to claim a 10-ft. by 10-ft. plot in return for 10% of the take. Within a few days, the farm land looked like a giant human anthill with more than 2,000 men, women and children feverishly wielding shovels...
Thanks to "the seemingly limitless supply of research funds, consulting opportunities, easy promotions and dazzling offers," he said, some young scholars "exhibit an opportunism that startles their elders. . . .In their view students are just impediments in the headlong search for more and better grants, fatter fees, higher salaries, higher rank...
...with junk so that we do not have to look in its frightening depth. What would we poor people do, if we would not always come up with some idea, like country, love, art, and religion with which we can again and again cover up that black hole. This limitless solitude in eternity. Being alone...
Fumbles. That freed Percy to turn his fulltime attention and limitless energies to his campaign against Democratic Governor Otto Kerner, 56, a handsome, likable man who was hand-picked by Chicago's Boss Daley. As Governor since 1960, Kerner has a good record on civil rights, can point to advances in the field of mental health, savings in Illinois' huge public-aid expenditures. But he has fumbled badly in efforts to reform Illinois' archaic tax structure, and not even his fellow Democrats would accuse him of being a dynamic leader. Said onetime Chicago Boss Jake Arvey recently...
...Gaulle's reaction was "limitless fury." He vowed: "If I live, I will fight, wherever I must, as long as I must, until the enemy is defeated and the national stain washed clean." De Gaulle tried to persuade the Vichy government to carry on the war from French North Africa, but no one of any eminence followed him into exile. "At this moment, the worst in her history," De Gaulle realized, "it was for me to assume the burden of France...