Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most urgently needed foodstuffs include fats of all kinds, cooking oils, sugar, canned meats, and dried milk and eggs to supplement the "monotonous diet of 1500 calories per day" and to ward off constant cold, it went...
When a native son leaves for Harvard, the folks back home are in constant fear that he will return with the above characteristics plus the additional herrer of a proper Bostonian accent. Of course, he never does adopt any of these features for he knows it would mean complete social ostracism...
...foreign policy was fanned into brisk flame last week. New York's roaring Representative John Taber discovered-after others had pointed it out to him-that the U.S. had shipped $113 million worth of exports to unfriendly Russia in the first nine months of 1947. Cried he: "A constant and deliberate violation of the law. . . . We are providing with our own funds the things with which Russia can destroy...
...matter how Indierons the plot, or absurd the characters, it is impossible to dislike a DeMille motion picture. DeMille has captured the romantic spirit necessary to an adventure film, combined it with constant and furious action, and with them has woven a pattern of continuous delight that is never dull for movie audiences over the past twenty-five years...
...Communists had even cracked south into Central China, after giving the bonfire treatment to long stretches of the vital Lunghai railway. One-eyed Communist General Liu Po-cheng and some 100,000 men were snug in the rugged Tapieh hills, just northeast of Hankow-a constant menace to the Yangtze valley...