Word: constant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rhymes and rages, Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenlco, 34, had a few angry verses after he learned of Dr. Benjamin Spock's conviction for conspiracy to incite draft evasion. In a poem titled "Monologue to Dr. Spock," Evtushenko proclaimed that there is far more sense in the "eternally constant goo-goo of a child than in the whole generation of shameless politicians." A fine sentiment, though it lost a bit in the translation. Russian...
Whenever the West begins to relax about Berlin, the Communists have a jarring way of reminding everyone that it is still there, and still vulnerable. Though crises flare and die elsewhere in the world, Berlin, where the cold war began, remains a constant pressure point, always susceptible to fresh Communist maneuvers...
...inexplicably. Director Elio Petri swore he bumped into-or through-a long-deceased ancestor of the villa's owner on the staircase one night. All those unnerving incidents soon had the stagehands muttering, and production lagged five days behind schedule until Vanessa and Co-Star Franco Nero, her constant companion since they made Camelot together, calmed the crew by holding midnight séances to keep the ha'nts at bay. "I regard the supernatural with great excitement," Vanessa said bravely...
...prototype is Disneyland itself. In its 13 years, the 70-acre, $100 million amusement park in Anaheim has become California's No. 1 tourist attraction: 7,900,000 visitors came last year. The constant influx has helped transform Anaheim from a small, dusty town set amid orange groves into a pleasant and bustling city. To cope with the tourists, 3,500 motel and hotel rooms have been built (Disney's own hotel has grown from 150 to 616 rooms) and restaurants have sprouted thick as asparagus outside the superpark's gates...
Match with Cesium. If earth time does indeed slow down relative to the pulsar clock in January, and speed up correspondingly in June, the pulsar signals (which have blipped at a constant frequency since they were discovered) would appear to increase their repetition rates as earth clocks slowed down and decrease them as earth time speeded up. Hoffmann's plan was immediately snapped up by Dror Sadeh, a Tel Aviv University physicist currently attached to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory at Washington...