Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press has tended to discount its own validity, and, as a result, the morale of its readers is low. They have been fed on too constant a diet of superlatives and excitements. . . . From public slogans and party platforms, shrill editorials and spiced-up news, to the insistent din and pretense of advertising, the reader . . . comes to believe that the careers of newsmen depend on the illicit transformation of narrative into melodrama. . . . He imagines propaganda both where it is and where...
Strong Friend. For Fernandes the Rio conference will be chiefly significant for what it contributes to Pan-Americanism. Said he recently: "Under the impact of war, Pan-Americanism has developed from an association with strictly economic and cultural ends to an institution with political activity . . . imposing upon us a constant watchfulness and a wider understanding. The first factor of success in this new task is the friendship we must keep on cultivating zealously with the sister republics . . . and with the U.S., that proven friend...
Married. Josef Cyrankiewicz, 36, bullet-headed, pro-Communist Polish Premier; and blonde, husky-voiced Nina Andrycz, thirtyish, who made her first big hit in The Constant Nymph and is now Warsaw's top leading lady; he for the second time, she for the first; in Warsaw...
...view of the almost constant Republican violations [of the Dutch-Indonesian truce]," said the Dutch Acting Governor General Hubertus van Mook, "The Netherlands Government cannot further be bound by the truce and agreement, and retake their freedom of action...
...astute business woman, founder and manager of the NBC Artists' Bureau, who had gone to California to retire. Said Hedda: "I want to get on that air." "In half an hour," says Dema, "she told me more about Hollywood than I could learn in two years of constant study." Dema decided to become Hedda's manager...