Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mold "boots" (Navy lingo for recruits) into the indefinable likeness of a Marine takes hard work on a rigid regimen; close order drill, combat exercises, firing on the range that goes with every Marine camp, endless heckling by N. C. O.s until the recruits learn to keep their eyes front, their chins in, their chests out. (Because in early days Marines wore high leather stocks that kept their heads up, sailors nicknamed them "leathernecks.") To mold a boot into the traditions of the Corps, to fire him with the conviction that a Marine is better than any other fighting...
Whereas the Declaration, for example, seethes over British use of "merciless Indian Savages," Lamb remarks that 1) Americans first invited the Indians' aid in 1775, 2) Americans had won the tribes' enmity with endless swindles, 3) God-fearing Pennsylvanians had once offered a bounty for Indian scalps. Washington's dignity and Dr. Franklin's ingenuity inspired Lamb's admiration. But he detests the hypocrisy of Demagogue John Hancock and his shyster lawyer Sam Adams, the "moral obliquity" of Boston's pious, greedy merchants...
...Camped near the mouth of many an industrial bottleneck is Worthington Pump & Machinery. Making steam, gas and Diesel engines, an endless variety of pumps, compressors, rock drills and turbines, Worthington must deliver before many defense construction jobs can start. Third-quarter profits were $465,000, v. $360,000 last year. With six months' unfilled orders on the books, 1940 will be its fattest year since...
...drunken rumpus in a West Indian port with a bevy of native girls, a tingling passage through the war zone, a long-drawn debauch in London's waterfront pubs and brothels. For those whose interest in the sea is less intense than John Ford's, the endless incidents aboard ship without benefit of plot may seem to drag in spite of honest acting, deft direction, superb photography and Richard Hageman's salty musical score. Best shot: the Glencairn's crew plastered prone on the ship's deck, with only the roar of Stukas, the splash...
...privateer. Armed with six 9-pounders, manned by a miscellaneous crew of Arab, Dutch, English, American adventurers, the "lovely little craft" was also stocked with a library. By night De Ruyter and Trelawny (dressed as an Arab) lay on deck, gazing at the Southern Cross during "endless discussion of freedom and revolution." By day they sank other ships, rescued no survivors. Trelawny rescued a sheik's daughter from African pirates, married her, took her privateering around the Indian Ocean until she died (of poison). Brokenhearted Trelawny burned her body on a pyre...