Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Although it is clearly evident," the study stated, "that the pressure for production and constant changes of schedule which reached a peak in the aircraft industry during the years 1942 and 1943 made impossible the organization of operations which must be the basis of teamwork, the conclusions of our study indicate that management's lack of awareness of the need to consider the requirements of balanced operation made it in a significant way responsible for the absences and turnover for which workers are so widely blamed...
...time for a change" [TIME, Oct. 23]. You never printed a truer caption! Let's look at someone else for a while. It's well and good for you to plug your candidate, but there must be a good many of your constant readers who, like myself, are getting fed up with Dewey already...
Then why not stop this everlasting series of complaints, this constant bitching and screaming and yelling and name-calling? . . Judging by the caliber of men the Republican Party has offered us as their best, I've about come to the conclusion that in my own opinion Mr. Roosevelt becomes increasingly indispensable to the future good of my country...
...fearlessly exposed himself to the terrific, relentless artillery, machine-gun and rifle fire . . . rallying his hesitant troops . . . gallantly led them across the fringing reefs ... to reinforce our hard-pressed, thinly held lines. Upon arrival at the shore he assumed command of all landed troops and, working without rest under constant, withering enemy fire during the next two days, conducted smashing attacks against unbelievably strong and fanatically defended Japanese positions...
...Incredibly Old." The son of a Jewish tradesman, Freud came of tough stock-his mother died at 93, when he himself was in his 70s. For 16 years before his death he endured the constant pain, intermittent surgery and increasing speech impairment which were the results of cancer of the mouth. When the Nazis invaded Austria, they allowed Freud to leave the country, but not until they had seized his psychoanalytical publishing house, "the institute, and the Clinic, lock, stock and barrel...