Word: constant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...communities that have experienced serious disorders and high crime incidence and where racial tension is a constant fact of life, there is a desperate urge to do something, almost anything. Firearms sales are at an alltime high. In Newark, a white organization, the North Ward Citizens Committee, has been openly arming for "self-defense." Elsewhere, store owners are organizing self-protection groups. In Kansas City, 25 merchants in a racially mixed neighborhood are threatening to close their shops en masse...
...considerably more detailed. He recommends, for instance, the establishment of "regional crime institutes" to do research and provide training and technical services for local law-enforcement agencies. And it is Humphrey who envisions the more prominent role for the Federal Government. To this, the Vice President adds strong and constant stress on the need for a wholehearted attack on the social and economic problems that he insists are at the root of lawlessness...
...Birchite origin, there is no real alternative to the right-wing slogan, "Support your local police." In its proper definition, support would mean paying higher taxes for higher wages to attract better policemen, and for modern equipment to match modern tasks. It would also mean a constant concern for constitutional rights-and utmost respect for the cop who guards freedom as zealously as he upholds order...
...both fidelity to the Salazar legacy and a new direction for the nation's life. "The great danger for pupils is always to do no more than repeat their teacher," he said, "forgetting that a thought must be living if it is to be fruitful. Life is a constant adaptation." In defense of his teacher's leg acy, he began by reappointing all the important Ministers in Salazar's Cabinet to their old posts. And he reaffirmed his predecessor's basic policies of holding onto Portugal's colonies and keeping dissent well under control...
Play was and is vital for John. The emotional problems of his childhood remain. He is still moody, and, according to his aunt, still never shows emotion. John most of all needs the other Beatles to preserve his mental equilibrium. A constant complaint of his wife was the importance of the other Beatles in his life. He will not even consider a vacation without his "mates," his "Beatle buddies." When they momentarily parted ways, after the touring period was over, John was desperately unhappy. "I did try to go my own way...I had a few good laughs and games...