Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blustery for the Prime Minister. A few times, William Lyon Mackenzie King bundled himself up and went out for a short walk along the shore or tackled the piney woods bordering the golf course. But mostly he stayed close to his sixth-floor suite in the Cavalier Hotel, in constant touch by telephone with Ottawa...
Ivan is the story of a ruler whose passion was to extend and unify a Russia dismembered among foreign enemies and predatory boyars; of the constant writhe of intrigue against him; of how he dealt with his enemies both foreign and domestic ; and of how the man and his policies changed in the process. Major scenes are Ivan's coronation; his destruction of the Tartar city of Kazan; his rising from his supposed deathbed to abash those who are plotting against his son's succession. Half mad with grief and self-doubt after his wife's murder...
Equally explicit was the late Dr. William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, who wrote: "From the religious side there is constant pressure to keep the spiritual free from what is felt to be the contamination of the material world, which is regarded as in some way gross and unworthy. . . . But this results ... in leaving the physical to go its own way unchecked by the spirit, so that the vaunted spiritual exaltation has its counterpart in bodily immorality. In either case the unity of man's life is broken; the material world, with all man's economic activity, becomes...
Even the National Association of Manufacturers, who had seen no danger of a wild price rise when the N.A.M. was axing OPA to death, was now worried. N.A.M. President Earl Bunting gloomed: "If the constant upward winding of the spiral continues, you'll see one of the most terrible busts this country ever...
Thunderclouds-and the plane-racking turbulence that goes on inside them-are a constant menace to a pilot. He cannot always tell whether the cloud ahead is dangerous or not. Last week both the airlines and the U.S. Weather Bureau were peering into clouds with radar-which seems to be the way to spot a genuine thunderhead full of dreaded turbulence...