Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drive our enemies into the sea. . . . Hitler knows the consequences of an Allied victory in Tunisia. They are simple. They are the actual invasions of the continent of Europe and we do not disguise our intention to make these invasions. . . . The pressure on Germany and Italy will be constant and unrelenting...
Twelve feet of reinforced concrete protect Admiral Karl Doenitz' U-boats when they put into Lorient and Brest for rest, repairs and refueling. Some Allied sources say that constant air raids, by smashing more poorly protected surface shops and power stations, have lowered the efficiency of Lorient and Brest as much as 75%, but the U-boats in packs still prowl forth into the Atlantic...
...Island made Bell an honorary canon of St. John's Cathedral, Providence. But of late years he has steered clear of parochial duties. Bell offends some listeners by his acid speech, Socialist ideas and condescending manner. He also lost a great deal of his popularity in Britain by constant gibes at imperialism...
...seen more than his share of pain and of that conduct of men in pain which is one of war's few compensations. He is perhaps at his best in communicating the simple grandeur, purposefulness and comradeship of a great number of vessels spaced and moving upon constant danger. H. M. Corvette is a quick cleaning-up, obviously, of spasmodic, hurried jottings in a notebook. It promises England a fine writer, when more time is had for writing...
There were and still are other sources of friction, dangerous as a bare nail in a shoe. General Bissell is by report an able soldier who respects the rulebooks and goes by them. Chennault is an able soldier who has no use for "the book." Result is constant friction. It is increased by the fact that his supply of planes (of which he hopes to have a maximum 500) comes through Bissell's India command...