Word: umpteen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knew him when he was a graduate student at M. I. T .... And though I'm not exactly known as a Republican, a labor-management dispute is no respecter of political parties." Is the government a third party in his mediations? "The trouble is," he grumbles, "the government is umpteen parties. Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Housing, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service-they are all interested parties...
Esquire made this disclosure in an umpteen-page section about what we hip college youths are up to, and even provided photographic proof...
Indeed, the most damning indictments of the old forms are the lineal descendents of umpteen previous Yearbooks retained in 329. Specifically, the House "vignettes" struggle to sustain the customary level of mediocrity (although Richard Kimmel's drawings of the Masters are superb). The catalogue of house activities, the pats on and knives in the backs of the Masters, the listless recapitulation of the style peculiar to a particular House ("An eighteenth-century atmosphere has always clung about Adams House like a pervasive, occasionally smothering mist"), should be abandoned. Why not a unified essay on the House system, the Masters, House...
Zinn's book is valuable as a history of the first three years of intensive, "direct action" civil rights work in the deep South. But what makes it stand out from the umpteen thousand other books on the civil rights movement written this year is that it also presents the unusual philosophy that has been born out of SNCC work...
...first days of Christmas, Lyndon Johnson gave reporters: 60 souvenir ashtrays, 26 colorful relatives, four private chats, umpteen salty quotes, three guided tours, and an ensign...