Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find myself upon a constant downward slope...
Sergei Mikhailkov is a big, blond, young Soviet wit who writes for children. Some months ago he began writing fables. Last week, in Moscow's Literaturnaya Gazeta, he devoted his twelfth fable to one of the Soviet Government's constant worries-the effect of foreign scenes and ways of life on Red Army men. Wrote Mikhailkov...
Radar's ability to report what it sees depends on differences in its targets' reflecting power (which engineers call the "dielectric constant"). Metal is an excellent reflector; earth, an indifferent one. Water also is a good reflector, but because of its flat surface, the radar beam caroms off at an angle and no echo reaches the receiver (except from a spot in the center of the beam); hence water appears black on the scope...
...mine coal (see Wartime Living) and help out in the transportation jam (TIME, July 30). Almost everybody in the capital thought the Army was too big - except the Army. Last week, the scrap was brought to a head by Colorado's angular, crinkly-haired Senator Ed Johnson, a constant thorn in the War Department's side...
...Americans, too, had paid. Example: the 32nd Infantry Division's battle for Villa Verde Trail had been one of the bloodiest in U.S. Army history. In 119 days of almost constant fighting, the 32nd lost 1,051 killed, 3,201 wounded, 14 missing-4,266 in all. And the final count was still to be made...