Word: boundless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indefatigable Evangelist Billy Graham paused at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel long enough to receive the Salvation Army's seventh annual citation for his "boundless spirit and unfailing faith." Then, after announcing that he is off to Europe in March for a six-month preaching tour, he headed for Georgia to relax for three days at Augusta's National Golf Club, a favorite course of President Eisenhower. Asked if he planned to play a round with Ike, Graham, whose scores hover in the so-so 90s, laughed and said: "I don't play that good...
...wall of water swept into Shigatse (altitude: 12,800 ft.). flooding shrines and drowning sacred statues. The flood undermined the ancient Palace of the Western Paradise, official residence of the 16-year-old Panchen Lama, whom 3,000,000 Tibetans accept as a spiritual reincarnation of the Buddha of Boundless Light. Reports reaching West Bengal last week reported that the palace collapsed, crushing scores of Buddhist monks in a welter of prayer wheels, holy vessels and ornamented battlements. One Red Chinese barracks, teeming with the Panchen Lama's Communist "bodyguards," reportedly fell apart. Estimated death toll: between...
Colette, says Biographer Margaret Crosland, "cannot be only partially accepted. One accepts everything or dismisses her completely." In fact, a case can be made that exactly the reverse is true. Colette was revered as a queen of French literature not because her kingdom was boundless, but because it was strictly limited and superbly governed. The subjects of Queen Colette have no souls, no morals, no politics, no intellects. Their aim is to devour the maximum of sensuous pleasure at the price of a pain that they often find most enjoyable, e.g., Chéri's heroine gets...
Sutton, with boundless campaign funds, hopped around the state in a helicopter and harangued voters for as long as 27 hours at a stretch on radio talkathons...
...that. He is neither a philosopher like Oliver Wendell Holmes nor a master of his fellow men equal to Charles Evans Hughes. But he has a good mind, a wealth of practical experience and success in administering the law, a feeling for the human side of a case and boundless energy...