Word: measureless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...servant to an old man named Knott, but his duties are vague, and he and his master have never exchanged a word. That is Author Beckett's way of showing the measureless distance between man and his fellow. But Watt's distance from himself is even greater. Not for him the prescription, "Know thyself"; the little he knows about himself he hates. He also hates other things, especially the earth and the sky. The closest he has ever come to companionship is with a man who shares his hatred of birds and love of rats. To the rats...
...great enemy of mankind today is nuclear power. Our finger is on the trigger all the time. The possibilities of destruction are measureless," the Governor asserted. "In the battle of nuclear power and man, nuclear energy has the upper hand." Nationalism is a danger because it is the means by which the nuclear power may be triggered, he added...
...guerrilla captains have become aging politicians, surrounded by corruption, inefficiency and rivalry. All but the most obtuse are ready to admit that throwing out the imperialists was the easiest part of their job, and concede that they have just about run out of ideas for combatting Asia's measureless poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, disease and administrative chaos...
...Xanadu did Carnegie A stately treasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred salesman, ran Through salesrooms measureless to man, Down to a moneyed...
...over; after long illness; in Strathaven (rhymes with raven), Scotland. Reared in poverty, the onetime mill boy and coal miner waggled his kilt and twirled his famous crooked stick to delight three generations. He acquired a fortune and (wrote Winston Churchill) "by his inspiring songs and valiant life . . . rendered measureless service to the Scottish race and to the British Empire...