Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most important, they are our constant contact with the American people-and through them TIME can (and often does) take the pulse of the country...
...well-intentioned Nervous Nellies of both countries stop this constant digging up the roots of Anglo-British friendship? . . . Americans are pro-British for the best reason in the world, because we must hang together or hang separately...
...there was one lack that any child could have noticed; the music was unmistakably bad. Even though the symphony had been begun last June when the Nazis started their drive and composed in odd moments snatched from volunteer fire-fighting in Leningrad during a terrible winter of hunger and constant siege, everybody expected and hoped for a miracle to happen. Human limitations being what they are, however, the miracle did not happen and the work of art failed entirely to measure up to the occasion...
...voices faded away just as if someone had turned off a radio, and all Vag could hear was the toy music of the distant phonograph, and the constant purring of the refrigerator. Then Vag remembered what it was he had forgotten to do. He had forgotten to sign for the beer. The devil with it. This one would be on the house. For the first time in two years Vag felt like a guest, and he knew that his host had the most wonderful house in the world, even if it did run on assessments...
...termite trouble may become worse. There is constant danger that new varieties will be imported (the U.S. has already exported several varieties of termites in lumber to Europe, where only two native types occur). But most scientists doubt that the termite and other social insects will conquer man and dominate the earth, despite the fears of Novelist H. G. Wells. Reason: limitations of their breathing apparatus...