Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile Candidate Dewey kept determinedly to the routine he had followed ever since his nomination. He boned up on his facts, pored over a specially prepared chronology of Democratic foreign policy. He soaked up new ideas from a constant stream of visitors-from China's Chen Li-fu to ex-Rival Harold Stassen (who was given the job of rebutting Harry Truman's Labor Day speech). In his few free moments, Dewey relaxed with his family, one day banged out a record 83 in a golf tournament for the press...
...Marijuana, a drug made from Indian hemp, is sometimes grown furtively on vacant city lots. Medical research has been unable to find positive evidence that it is habit-forming, but it has its constant users. It is said to produce a state of exhilaration in which time seems to move slowly...
...plane had shown on Middle Scope, whose operator picked up: "Decrease rate of descent to 400 and maintain it constant . . . Lower your landing gear ..." Then Final Scope took over: "Change course to three four eight degrees. You're high on the glide path . . . Level off. Steady . . . You're on the glide path...
...they used to. The Keeley ("Drunkenness Is a Disease") Institute reported that the number of bartenders treated had risen from three in 1940 to 28 last year. Said Director James H. Oughton Jr.: "Perhaps it is . . . the chaotic condition of world politics and economics. A bartender must listen to constant discussion of these topics...
...sellout audiences on the edges of their seats (he sometimes stopped the orchestra in the middle of a movement to lecture the audience on its manners). Such other conductors as Basil Cameron and Nikolai Sokoloff had left Seattle shaking their heads and wringing their hands. Halfempty houses, rickety budgets, constant wrangling of the socialite directors or the insubordination among the musicians had made life unbearable. The last conductor to get "the Seattle treatment," ruddy-faced Carl Bricken, 49, survived a petition signed by 50-odd members of the orchestra asking that he be sacked, but he finally quit...