Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...agonized for her exhausted husband, slept fitfully and suffered from a recurring nightmare in which she wandered lost through endless rooms. The months before L.BJ.'s decision not to run again were the worst; to her, the thought of another campaign seemed like "an open-ended stay in a concentration camp...
Pascal's Wager proposes that the promise of infinite gain makes belief in God's existence worthwhile no matter how small the possibility might seem, and that life should be devoted to renouncing the endless contradictions and passions of self which interfere with maintaining a consciousness of God. Jean-Louis rejects this doctrine, first on the grounds that it's bad probability ("a lottery"), and secondly that accepting certain worldly pleasures (within reason) doesn't lessen his religious faith. He lives by a sort of operational dialectic, using the science of probability to calculate his freedom within the limits...
Harvard has been notorious over the past several seasons for its endless shuffling of quarterbacks. Partly this has been due to a lack of talent-a problem which clearly does not exist this year-and partly to the coaches' hesitancy to go all the way with one man at quarterback...
...either group. I took part in the planning of the proposal; I write now to express my concern over the Faculty's action, and to clarify my remarks following Professor Hoffmann's statement. For one thing, those of us- students and Faculty alike- who serve on committees and spend endless hours debating the issues to finally reach compromises in order to bring proposals to the Faculty, often find that reforms are turned down or postponed because they cannot be subsumed under a grand coherent scheme for undergraduate educational reform. Only in a small sectarian liberal arts college (St. Johns College...
...Patients should not be forced, or even encouraged to take part in endless recreational therapy. "While American society approves of recreation after work, it does not approve of recreation instead of work; the latter is viewed as childlike play activity...