Word: limitless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Compelled by the Soviet's purposeful drive for the moon, stirred by the American tradition and man's limitless yearning to challenge the unknown, the U.S. has a new adventure in store, an old promise to keep-to its own pride, to progress, and perhaps to survival...
...study bedroom (thus achieving a "true triple") and the other living room for social purposes. Or three men can arrange a "true triple" out of two adjoining single suites. The possibilities for achieving the kind of group privacy realized by Quincy House's four-man suites seems virtually limitless...
...from night. The poet encompasses the world and suffers to express it ("Blood froze in the huge Colossus") while the common run of humanity sleeps under the snows. Such is Pasternak's own creative shorthand that -as with any major poet-the possibilities of symbolic interpretation are almost limitless, without ever offering complete certainty as to the "real" meaning. But an electric current of excitement runs through the poem, in which the meaning is sensed before it is understood...
...Perhaps the trouble is that young Duluoz does not matter. As a brash, noisemaking ten-year-old, he lived in a world full of wonders; as a teenager, he seems gross and unimaginative. Maggie Cassidy was taken, like most of Kerouac's recently published books, from an apparently limitless attic filled before On the Road appeared. For the literary taxidermist, such finds can be profitable. "In the bleak, birds squeak," the Beat One interjects during a soliloquy. This specimen, with its weird vein of Gertrude Stein, should be stuffed, mounted, labeled, and sent to the Smithsonian Institution...
Senator Theodore Francis Green, 91. Beginning a 21-day visit to the U.S., the King of the Belgians crisscrossed Washington with the crowded schedule of a dignitary and the limitless curiosity of a high school student on a senior-class trip to the capital. He laid wreaths at Mount Vernon and the Tomb of the Unknowns, was briefed on outer space by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, lunched in the Pentagon with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, discovered a portrait of his grandfather Albert I at the Smithsonian Institution, impressed National Gallery of Art Director John Walker by correctly judging...