Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week New York City's Selective Service (draft) headquarters issued the following handout: ". . . Our paper work is endless and, in 99% of the cases, of only official interest. The remaining one per cent occasionally brightens our day. Herewith is a file of the more curious communications [from draft registrants, their friends, et al.]. Names of people and towns have been changed. Otherwise the wording is verbatim." Some of the communications...
Next to his sense of duty-which is deep, and has kept him sitting hour upon hour in the Senate, through endless speeches and formalities-is Mr. Wallace's passion for the Good Neighbor Policy...
...basis for tangy Shavian broadsides whose substance hasn't dated even though their vocabulary sometimes has. One is a ludicrous ribbing of the medical profession, which still has its frightening share of faddists and licensed bunglers. Another is an equally comic argument for the arts in their endless debate with Philistinism...
...lies at Ipiutak on Point Hope, a bleak sandspit in the Arctic Ocean, where no trees and little grass survive endless gales at 30° below zero. But where houses lay more than 2,000 years ago, underlying refuse makes grass and moss grow greener. The scientists could easily discern traces of long avenues and hundreds of dwelling sites. A mile long, a quarter-mile wide, this ruined city was perhaps as big as any in Alaska today (biggest: Juneau...
...Foreign Commissar of Soviet Russia. Although he had never been much of a power within the Soviet Union, he was one of the few old-line Bolsheviks who could talk to capitalist diplomats in their own language. He made an able traveling salesman for Joseph Stalin. At the endless, shilly-shallying, post-war conferences he was the vigorous symbol of an era when the Soviet was plugging the theory of collective security, backed every democratic move aimed at the Axis. But he was sold out all along the line...