Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hitler's constant bombardment of Britain has so far been unsuccessful in weakening the stamina of the English people, who show little hysteria despite their sleepless nights, are surprisingly free from war-time epidemic diseases, and display a growing confidence that they will...
...night, for 96 tense hours, Lieut. Davies and his squad burrowed. No excitement of active combat, no military ends, no instinct to destroy the enemy urged them as they grubbed 27 feet into the wet, sandy soil. They were in constant expectation of a blinding, icy flash of death. As they dug, a gas main caught fire and began to broil the bomb. Twice on the way up the bomb slipped its tackles and fell to the bottom of the hole...
Several changes have been made in the course, which has been in a state of constant development since it was started two years ago. S. Vincent Wilking, the new instructor in the course, has composed a textbook of reading exercises which will augment those given by means of motion picture...
...Home Again as the culminating Wolfe masterpiece. To others it may seem like rereading The Web and the Rock. There is the same mass and specific gravity of wordage. There is the same tidal flux and reflux of language. There is Wolfe's constant continental sense of the U. S., which sometimes turns into a Whitmanic bill of particulars. There are the same major characters, all from life, and the same unreality surrounding them. There are the same successes with minor characters, the same fine ear for idiom. There is the same power to create fantastic episodes, like Piggy...
Militarism is produced by a constant preoccupation with the chances...