Word: nonstop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scheme to prevent an international monetary crisis. Runaway inflation is a terrible thing, Vince explains, because people start to use currency as wallpaper and tend to listen to atonal music. Though Sheldon wants nothing to do with his inlaw, he soon becomes his unwitting accomplice. What follows is a nonstop series of shootouts, chase scenes and mishaps that catapult the heroes from suburban New Jersey to Manhattan's treacherous West 30s and finally to a banana republic so corrupt that its main drag is called United Fruit Boulevard. There are encounters with the daredevil Chinese pilots of Wong Airlines...
...Beckett symbolizes this by immobilizing his characters, in ashcans in Endgame, in urns in Play. In Happy Days, the heroine Winnie (Irene Worth) is buried up to her waist in the first scene and up to her neck in the second. Whereas Winnie is one of life's nonstop talkers, an autobiographiliac, her husband Willie (George Voskovec) is laconic and scarcely visible until the very end of the play. Yet his absence constitutes a powerful presence. In her garrulous chronicle of the petty and the cosmic, Winnie is performing her own last rites, and she wants Willie to hear...
...that field, which was an abandoned private airport immediately north of the world's busiest terminal, 271 people had died. They had crashed to earth in an American Airlines DC-10, which had taken off from O'Hare at 3 p.m. on a four-hour, nonstop flight to Los Angeles. The huge wide-body plane (its cabin is 136 ft. long and 19 ft. wide) had flown only half a mile...
...sooner was she installed at No. 10 Downing Street-after a couple of good nights' sleep to recover from the nonstop campaign and the tumult of the election -than Thatcher was on the move on several fronts at once. Before the week was out, she seemed to have gone far toward countering some of the misgivings about her inexperience, and allaying some of the fears about a national lurch to the right, at least too far to the right...
...career took a turn for the worse, though, when the frosh traveled to Andover one day and Roberts played poorly, losing a straight-setter to Kris Kinney. Kris, as in Kristin, as in female. As in nonstop razzing from the chauvinistic males on Harvard's tennis team (who ignored the fact that Kinney went on to become one of the top players in the East at Princeton...