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...first administration took office to the screeching brakes of an immobilizing transit strike. Thereafter the city lost half its major daily newspapers, endured a monumental garbage strike, suffered the paralyzing aftermath of a great snowstorm, and mourned the loss of numberless school days as a result of the worst school strike in U.S. history...
...endless source of fascination for Western travelers, who are invariably, and rightly, en chanted by the rugged beauty of its mountains and the exquisite manners of its people. For one of Japan's ear liest Western advocates, Lafcadio Hearn, the main thing was "the viewless pressure of numberless past generations" at work in the country. These days the focus is on the future generations of Japan. No one knows what pressures they will feel, but one thing is cer tain: Japan will, as Sato says, carry weight...
...them keep their blood money," he declared angrily. "Let them keep their bloody relief supplies." Nigeria's chief was particularly annoyed with Pope Paul VI, who told a crowd in St. Peter's Square that "the victory of arms may carry with it the killing of numberless people. There are those who actually fear a kind of genocide." Gowon, whose tactics for three years have been designed to limit casualties, bristled at the reference to "genocide." In the streets of Lagos, student demonstrators appeared with placards recommending THE HOTTEST PARTS OF HELL FOR THE POPE...
...wall regardless of what condition it is in and decide what must be used on that particular wall to minimize or highlight any defects or good points on the wall, some walls have to be pre-conditioned before he can attempt to do a good job. I can list numberless things that he has to know and consider to produce a perfect job every time. The painter also must be able to rig a building. I can recall many occasions when carpenters have asked us to assist in rigging a building...
WASHINGTON is basically an imperial seat plus slums plus liquor stores. The celebrated Mall stretches about a mile from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial on the shores of the Potomac. On either side of it loom numberless federal buildings. Except for the Pentagon, it's all right there. Most of the buildings are the familiar second-rate parodies of the Panthcon and, as Greenough pointed out over a hundred years ago, there is nothing sillier than America trying to be Corinthian. Perhaps every President for the last hundred years, tired and frustrated at the end of his term, wanted...