Word: nonstop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trooped to the ski slopes in record numbers. Le tout Paris was caught up in a frenzied swirl of parties and balls that surprised even veteran socialites. "I have never seen such a social season," the Duke of Windsor told friends. "We have been going nonstop for weeks, and there is no sign of a letup...
...support the parity of its currency. The run stopped only when the world's currency markets were closed down for three days to give the West's industrial nations, the so-called Group of Ten, a chance to solve the crisis. After three days of almost nonstop sessions in Bonn, the financial experts emerged confident that they had found the solution. In a showdown, the West Germans refused to revalue the mark...
...terribly sedate. The girl is bound to a chair and gagged most of the time, and initially clothed. Possibly the most exciting scene in this distinctly lethargic drama is the one in which she is undressed by her captor, a soft-spoken psychopath (Robert Drivas) who recounts in a nonstop monologue how the first girl he loved ditched him and then went mad, and how he abandoned another woman who then committed suicide. McNally's point seems to be that humans ought to manage the business of love with antlike efficiency and cool concupiscence...
...before the sentence finally reaches a period. Even the reader who has earned his explorer's badge in trackless writing may have some initial trouble with such prose. Giuseppe Berto, whose writing career began in 1948 with an excellent war novel, The Sky Is Red, unveiled his new nonstop style in Incubus (TIME, Feb. 4, 1966), a remorseless account of a screenwriter's experience with psychoanalysis. Paradoxically, the method turns out to be better suited to a much more commonplace story, where radical style refreshes a traditional subject...
...time when most U.S. rock jockeys are screaming egomaniacs, Drake advises his stations to end the cult of nonstop talkers. Even Murray the K, the nation's best known jock, was forced out shortly after Drake's firm moved in at WOR-FM in Manhattan. Murray, noting his "plastic-voiced" successors and their less adventurous choice of records, predicted disaster for Drake. But in the eleven months since, Drake has doubled the ratings and put money-losing WOR-FM in the black...