Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tackle controversies which persisted independently of elections, Harry Truman worked inconspicuously. He let OPAdministrator Paul Porter grapple with revising policy on rents (see Administration). In the soft-coal crisis, (see The Nation), he kept behind the scenes, but kept in constant touch with Secretary of the Interior "Cap" Krug...
Manager Conn Smythe, a man who has been known to walk out on the ice and personally "tighten the necktie" of a referee he considered offensive, spent most of last winter recovering from a shrapnel wound he got at Caen. Without the constant goad of Smythe's furious presence, the gentle Leafs finished the season with fewer man-minutes in the penalty box than any other team in the league, ruefully called themselves the "Lady Byng team...
...Constant readers decoded it at a glance. It wasn't the second verse of the Hut-Sut Song, but the shortest way of saying that a man who had once slugged an umpire had now been arrested on a charge of picking the pockets of a sleeping citizen...
...that the more a church strives to include all people, the more it bears faithful witness to God's pattern for peace. . . . The Holy Table at St. George's has for generations been a meeting point at which men of all classes and races could gather-a constant reminder that God cares for all men. . . . When people of different backgrounds and interests learn to share their hopes and beliefs within a parish, the foundations of world understanding are being laid...
...this time, significantly, the statement was the handiwork of a special committee of six--equally divided between right and left wing leaders. Murray said this committee worked two and a half days in almost constant session and was unanimous in its agreement...