Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House of Commons, at Whitehall, at 11 Downing Street, the Deputy Prime Minister's office, at the London County Hall, at Transport House and at the London Labor Party Center. He moves around the hexagon of desks with pixy-like buoyancy, a nearly constant smile proclaiming his insatiable pleasure in working and living...
Under the direction of Frank Vaughan, instructor and assistant swimming coach, 30 classes a week keep the pools in the Indoor Athletic Building in constant use every weekday afternoon. Sixty men in the group started the term as complete newcomers to the sport, and at present one third of them have passed the fifty yard swimming test...
...Allies recognize the basic differences in our ideas, standards and methods instead of trying to make ourselves believe that they do not exist. ... I sometimes think our Soviet friends fear we would think them weak and soft if they agreed without a struggle on anything we wanted. . . .Constant struggle, however, is not always helpful...
Divorced. By Leonora Corbett, 38, glittering star of the British stage & screen constellation (Blithe Spirit, The Constant Nymph, Lady in Waiting): her first husband, John Francis Royal, 60, burly NBC vice president; after four years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
...stylist, Miss Howe is guilty of one of the things which she parodies so effectively: the constant use of literary allusion in conversation. The entire book is larded with supposedly apt quotations, most of them uprooted from English literature and sown broadcast through every chapter. When Dorothea's son wishes to enlist in the Navy, Miss Howe's comment as novelist is "No man is an island," a reference which since the publication of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" has been fighting it out with "This above all" as the most overworked phrase in all literature...