Word: nonstop
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...insisted he be buried not at home in Massachusetts but at Arlington National Cemetery, the last resting place for soldiers. She asked aides to research the burial rites of another martyred President, to make her husband's "as Lincoln-esque as possible." The networks would run nonstop coverage; a million people lined the streets for the procession from the White House to the Cathedral. The flag-draped casket was pulled on a caisson - the same one that had carried FDR - by six gray horses; a riderless horse named Black Jack followed behind, a sword hanging from the black saddle...
...role of Dr. Conrad Murray has been the subject of nearly nonstop speculation since shortly after the death of Michael Jackson. The cardiologist - Jackson's personal physician - told investigators he was responsible for giving the pop singer a potent drug cocktail on June 25, culminating with a dose of 25 milligrams of the prescription sedative propofol - the drug the coroner's preliminary reports indicated killed Jackson. Authorities have already searched Murray's clinics, and with reports that investigators now consider Jackson's death a homicide, the speculation around Murray is only intensifying further...
...including a button with the words "God's Chosen Presidents," showing a montage of Obama and Ghana's new President, John Atta Mills, who took office in January, just two weeks before Obama's Inauguration. "The radio stations continuously mention his visit and play excerpts from his speeches almost nonstop," Ghanaian journalist Ebo Richardson wrote to me in an e-mail on July 6. "There are posters everywhere featuring Barack and Michelle, and everyone I know plans to join the procession to catch a glimpse of one of the most inspirational leaders Africa has ever spawned...
...have you prepared to do this show live, knowing you're not going to get another crack at it for a couple of months? I've thought about it nonstop for the last two months. I've been there and booked pretty much every guest we've gotten. I've made sure to do all the prep work that I can on the guests we're having...
...entire reading list with that kind of knowledge of ancient languages because—poor souls—they didn’t have the time to acquire this knowledge,” says Classics assistant professor Francesca Schironi. “You can’t read Pindar nonstop with two years of Greek.”Doing poorly in the six-hour general examination—which consists of sight translations and analyses of passages from writers ranging from Terence to Herodotus—can jeopardize Classics concentrators’ chances of receiving honors and even graduating.But...