Word: umpteenth
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Before the President goes abroad, he usually gets a call from old Earl, who just suggests for the umpteenth time that the crops are mighty good back in the heartland...
...Maureen. Thank God, she can cope with anything, just by being a bundle of nerves," drawled Playwright Tennessee Williams, 61, after watching Maureen Stapleton star in the umpteenth production of his masterwork, The Glass Menagerie. Though Williams criticized...
...incredibly magnetic human being." Among other things, Joni is a focal point for elegance in a profession of rumpled informality A Persian carpet and a vase of red roses are de rigueur stage decorations for concerts. Most rock-concert performers, bored with singing their ultimate paean for the umpteenth time, wait for their own turns on the program in backstage trailers. But when Joni goes onstage, so do the other entertainers. Standing between speakers and behind amps, they become almost as enthusiastic as the ones who paid...
Towards the end of September the anti-Oriole feelings rose to such a pitch that even many die-hard Boston fans were rooting for the Yankees just so Baltimore wouldn't win the division title for the umpteenth time...
...opera. Sarah is forever racing round town, scrounging money from her merchant friends to pay off some irate truckers or meet an impending payroll. A woman possessed, and sometimes distracted, by her mission, she once drove home in the wee hours after an exhausting rehearsal, discovered for the umpteenth time that she had lost her keys, checked into a nearby motel for a quick snooze, then walked out and forgot to pay. Her mother recently offered her $1,000 in cash if she would only get her hair done for an opening night; Sarah had no time. She would...