Word: constant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intercontinental ballistic missiles with pinpoint accuracy "to any part of the globe." In Washington President Eisenhower scoffed politely, said that U.S. missile progress was "remarkable" and "going forward as rapidly as possible. I think it is a matter for pride on the part of America, and not a constant-well, hangdog attitude of humiliation...
...affirmation. Because society disapproved of Hitler, he was for him." ¶ Painter David Siqueiros: "If ten people were in a room and argued for something -anything-Orozco would take the opposite side. His tolerance for fascism stemmed from our adherence to Communism, no more . . . Orozco's only 'constant' was his bitter hatred of anything having to do with religion." ¶ Biographer Justino Fernandez: "Orozco is hard on God at the Day of Judgment, because he felt that the punishments meted out to sinful men were too severe." ¶ Dealer Inés Amor: "He hated mankind...
...Charlie Hamm, the Crimson was never in trouble throughout the afternoon. Hamm had about the easiest match of the day as he disposed of the Lord Jeffs' number one man, 15-10, 15-9 and 15-10. The power and consistency of Hamm's shots kept his opponent in constant trouble, and the Crimson captain ran out the match with little difficulty...
Sheer lack of sophistication is evidenced by the argument that the CDF-run MeBAC would represent "unfair competition" to independent drama groups, apparently on the theory that all the arts are in constant cutthroat competition and that a customer for one theatre is a customer lost to another. We are sure the CRIMSON does not seriously think that the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger museums subtract their visitors from the sum-total of gallery-goers, or that someone who buys a ticket for the Budapest String Quartet will not patronize the Boston Opera Group...
Trials were conducted among the craggy islands in Casco Bay, near Portland, Me., where dense schools of herring drift through twisted channels. Traditionally, Maine fishermen float long nets out into the channels to shunt the herring into the waiting traps. But such nets have drawbacks. They need constant maintenance, they cannot be extended across heavily traveled waterways, they are often carried away by tidal currents...