Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mydans and his wife remember the months of internment at Santo Tomas as "an atmosphere of constant, oozing fear and unrelieved physical discomfort. All of us found ourselves losing the power to keep perspective and to remember who we were and the lives we used to lead. With no purpose and no future we were overcome with the feeling of futility...
...particularly those recently married or childless, often develop pathological reactions in the form of physiological disturbances, resentment against the husband, inability to recall the husband's face or to sense the reality of the married state, vague fears of infidelity. Most susceptible are "orally demanding" women, those requiring constant assurances of their husband's devotion...
...While he was planning aid-to-Britain in the quiet recesses of Chequers, Wendell Willkie arrived to acquaint himself (and the U.S. public) with the plight of the British. When Hopkins returned to the U.S., the Lend-Lease Act was ready for passage, and he was made administrator. The constant tone of his cables had been: Britain will hold...
...Sight Raiser. Harry Hopkins was in the President's study, munching an apple, when Franklin Roosevelt got the news of Pearl Harbor. Now the job of being a constant goad on production was added to Hopkins' functions. He listened to the bustling airmen, and agreed without batting an eye that the U.S. could meet their seemingly fantastic wants. It was he who always put the ostrich egg in the hen coop, who always raised the sights over the last highest production estimate. In 1941, shown the estimated merchant-ship construction for the year, he blandly doubled the figure. At year...
Joan Fontaine, wistful, heartwarming, Oscar-winning Hollywood tragedienne, gave notice that she was through with "tearjerker" roles (Rebecca, The Constant Nymph), would turn gay, beginning with her new picture, The Affairs of Susan. Said she: "I was the Sad Sack of the screen. . . . From now on . . . no more tears...