Word: constant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...signs, to be sure, were scarcely perceptible. Flying to Chicago in midweek, the President was given a dizzying reception by Mayor Richard Daley's faithful machine. Johnson reiterated his constant theme these days-national unity. "However strong, however prosperous, however just its purposes or noble its cause," he told a dinner of Cook County Democrats, "no nation can long endure when citizen is turned against citizen, cause against cause, section against section, generation against generation by the mean and selfish spirit of partisanship...
...Division, who guard the 18.5-mi. American sector, and 250,000 South Korean troops, who patrol the rest of the 151-mi. DMZ. To help slow down the Communists, an 11-ft.-high chain-link and wire fence runs the length of the zone; it remains under constant surveillance by U.S. and South Korean troops, who hole up in sandbagged guardposts with grenade launchers and submachine guns. Originally the guardposts were merely lookouts but, points out Captain Harold J. Daub of the 2nd Division, "they are fighting positions...
Though he was raised a Unitarian amid the Lutherans and Amish of southeastern Pennsylvania, Updike joined the more middle-road Congregationalist Church in 1959. Then, a year later, as he was writing Rabbit, Run, the awareness of time passing pressed so closely on him that he felt a constant "sense of horror that beneath this skin of bright and exquisitely sculpted phenomena, death waits." It was a full-dress religious crisis lasting several months, and Updike says now that he got through it only by clinging to the stern, neo-orthodox theology of Switzerland's Karl Earth. In Earth...
...Committee on Houses has underestimated the intensity of student desires for representation," Jeffrey C. Alexander '69, HUC vice-president, said yesterday. "Their constant snubbing of student opinion--with parietals and Afro's current demands--shows they don't understand that students today are learning to respect their own legitimacy and their own power," he added...
...after Pearl Harbor was bombed, and spent the next seven months in confinement at the embassy until the Swiss arranged his release; after a long illness; in Manhattan. "At no time in the history of civilized nations were diplomatic representatives so treated," said he of the constant harassment by Japanese police...