Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beat Yale" sings in the Crimson locker room began to mark an increasingly tense attitude--the usual keynote of Yale week, and a big plaster bulldog sat ominously over the door, a constant reminder that the Crimson's fall classic is just four days away...
...constant pressure against the 40-mile front had had its effect. Rommel in alarm had begun to withdraw his stores and supplies. To counter what seemed to be the greatest threat, at the end of his line which was anchored to the seacoast, he had swung the 21st Panzer Division north. That was when the inexorable Montgomery struck...
Fighting her profound poverty, Chile has developed the greatest social-security program in Latin America. But it is a constant, obsessing battle to keep help in the running with need. In 1939 Chile had the highest infant mortality rate in the world (250 out of 1,000 live births), a death rate twice that...
...time after time. They never seemed to sleep during a maneuver. They figured out where the tanks were likely to come (and usually they guessed right), then lay in wait to enfilade them, fleeing during the confusion, firing again from another angle. They reconnoitered all night, all day, maintained constant. radio communication with all units...
...free of water and mud. No sooner had she bobbed to the surface than an engine-room explosion settled her back into the ooze again. An explosion in the repair launch alongside her did not add to the efficiency of the salvage crew, which had been in a constant tizzy anyway for fear of being torpedoed themselves...