In what the elder Mr. Twichell wrote later was "72 hours of ceaseless effort," at times by the light of their truck headlights, the men felled trees, squared timbers, assembled trestles and waded chest deep into the ice-cold river to float them into position.
Why, he wondered, would anyone endure hours of ceaseless prayer in the stifling summer heat dressed in a heavy dark coat and fur hat?
Across wide lanes of traffic – ceaseless, even at this hour – I can just about make out the dark silhouette of Hyde Park's trees.
Construction cranes and chain saws whine all the daylight hours in the ceaseless creation of new moneymaking structures, and so many visitors arrived last summer that the town's water supply dried up for three weeks.
And many employees concluded that they deserved the perks, since joining Enron often meant 12-hour workdays and ceaseless travel.
He talked non-stop throughout the hour-long drive, the ceaseless river of speech fuelled by measured sips from a bottle of Sunkist soda.
But then, after about a half-hour of foot-dragging and ceaseless water break negotiations, a change would come over Gus.
It was not just the long hours, the new culture and the ceaseless demands that weighed on the imam.
It's as if the BBC has learned nothing from the travesty of Trump's rise to power: all that ceaseless mockery, the laughter of smug liberals 24 hours a day on every channel coast to coast – and somehow, by some strange and mysterious mechanism, giving slavish attention to Donald Trump didn't make him go away.
