Word: constant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elsewhere, the Communists pose a constant threat. The allied military presence has never been strong, for example, in the southernmost IV Corps, which comprises the rice-rich Delta; now it is weaker than ever. The ARVN and Popular Forces fled from the countryside at the onset of Tet, and have been slow to return. The U.S. has only two brigades of the Ninth Infantry in the Delta. Their energies have been fully taxed by the patrols required to keep open Route Four, over which food supplies flow to Saigon...
...Constant Refrain. Whatever the Johnsonian moves meant, they stirred speculation and kept his name and image before the nation. In his speechmaking, the President touched frequently on the myriad crises that have overtaken his ill-starred Administration. He emphasized the "urgent" need for enactment of his 10% surcharge on income taxes and for the adoption of "a program of national austerity to ensure that our economy will prosper and that our fiscal position will be sound." For the first time, he came out with a warm endorsement of the Kerner Commission report on last summer's riots. Having previously...
...speech after speech, his constant refrain was Viet Nam-which, after all, is the issue that prompted Eugene McCarthy to challenge him in the first place and then jet-propelled Kennedy into the race...
...tilt of the rotor blades and pedals that move the rudders mounted on the rear of its twin booms. Lift is provided by the freewheeling rotor, which also acts as a gyroscope, tending to keep the J-2 extremely stable in flight. Unlike the helicopter, which is subject to constant torque from its powered rotor, the gyroplane experiences no twisting effect and needs no counteracting rotor and extra controls to provide stability...
...most elaborate computer system operates 24 hours a day in the City of God. Helicopters and a bristling network of rooftop antennas link the city with many of Bradesco's 327 branches, spread over south and central Brazil. Seventeen radio stations keep the bank's executives in constant touch with remote offices. While most of Brazil's musty banks know where they stand only two or three times a month, Bradesco directors in the 13-story headquarters building in the City of God scan yesterday's balance sheets with their morning coffee...