Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the R.A.F. Coastal Command and the U.S. Navy let out a story about one of their most important antisubmarine operations. Over the Bay of Biscay giant, white Liberators keep a constant, 24-hour patrol. They sweep back & forth in a perpetual search to nail subs before they spew out into mid-Atlantic from their pens on the French west coast. During most of the long hours the scanning eye sees only a wilderness...
...measured, prayerful words, the President proclaimed Jan. 1, 1944 a "day of prayer to give thanks to Almighty God for His constant providence over us in every hour of national peace and national peril.. . . May we humbly seek strength and guidance for the problems of widening warfare and for the responsibilities of increasing victory...
...ravenous meal of the day-a truckdriver's helping of Irish stew or rare roast beef. Their respective jobs keep her and Ensign Richard Ney (Mrs. Miniver's son; they married last July) from seeing much of each other. Miss Carson's most constant companion is her mother...
...chances for a civilian or mixed team are very slim since the pool is in constant use by various classes of servicemen and undergraduates...
Order and Disorder. What Western readers may get from The Wisdom of Confucius, and what Chinese do not emphasize, is the sense of constant hazard in Confucius' search for a wise sovereign...