Word: countless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning with Smith in a secret hotel hideaway. That same day she met with Reagan's senior staff, including the troika of Meese, James Baker and Michael Deaver. On July 1 she was invited to the Oval Office by Reagan. The 10 a.m. meeting was unannounced and, like countless other private presidential meetings, went unnoticed by reporters. She moved quickly to break any tension in the talks by reminding the President that they had met a decade ago, when he was Governor of California and she was in the Arizona senate. They had talked about the kinds of limitations...
...more public-minded 1960's, the '70s saw an upsurge of selfish attention to, well, the self. Voluminous bestsellers on exercise, fitness and sexual joy were snapped up like so many peanuts at a corner bar. And when John Q. Public wasn't eyeing his calories as instructed by countless handbooks, he was spending more money on outrageously expensive fashions than the entire race of Bedouins since their descent from Ham. Gurus of this 'Me Decade' stressed the gratification of the individual--particularly themselves...
...contemporary writers can match Clavell's sense of place, a talent that evoked feudal Japan in Shogun. Here he recalls the febrile life of the Crown Colony in August 1963. If the countless ayeeyahs make the book occasionally sound like Terry and the Pirates, there is much to ayeeyah about: murder, kidnaping, smuggling, a fire on a floating restaurant, a typhoon and a disastrous mudslide that helps sort out the convoluted plot...
...courage. Stan Smith possessed these qualities during his brief reign at the top of the world rankings. Arthur Ashe rarely questioned a call and certainly never called an umpire a "fool" before thousands of fans. Further back, men like Laver and Rosewall exemplified these virtues, as did the countless female champions of the century. Today, the dominant force in men's tennis--Bjorn Borg--carries himself with the pride of a man who never has to whine for a point...
...days after the attacks, stores reopened, trade flourished and the bars and restaurants were once again jammed with pleasure-seekers. The flower shops that proliferate in almost every quarter of the city were filled with carnations and snapdragons that spilled over onto the sidewalk in elegant displays. At countless intersections, the fruit and vegetable stands that sell the best fresh food in the Middle East were doing a thriving business. All the city's 86 banks -more numerous than before the civil war-were open for business. The British embassy went ahead with a reception for David Roberts...