Word: constant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gurry started at defense early in the season and his good size (5-11, 170 pounds) and exceptional ability to bodycheck, make him a constant threat literally to upset enemy forwards...
...continue his campaign to get on 49 states' presidential ballots (Ohio's requirements are too tough). He intends to keep barnstorming until the election with his 21-member campaign entourage in a chartered DC-6, meanwhile governing Alabama via a sophisticated telephone hookup that keeps him in constant communication with the state. Only his wife's illness could possibly slow him down. Last week when Lurleen Wallace underwent emergency cancer surgery for the third time in two years, George canceled all speaking engagements to join...
...Well aware of the Marines' dependence on air support, the North Vietnamese are doing everything they can to make the skies over Khe Sanh unsafe. So far, they have managed to destroy only one American C-130 transport and temporarily disable another, but they keep the airstrip under constant fire whenever a plane lands. They are also adding 37-mm. flak to the hundreds of machine guns that already ring the Marine base. U.S. flyers even fear that SAMS and MIGS may soon be used around Khe Sanh; in fact, B-52s are now escorted on their daily raids...
HUMOR needs constant airing. The main reason why the Lampoon never makes anyone really laugh out loud (I hope The Proposition cast won't be too offended by this comparison) is that its pieces, though written by individuals, must be read to the rest of the organization for peer approval. Thus there is a tendency not to include anything strikingly different from what has been accepted before for fear that someone will frown and say, "I don't think that's funny." This is why most Lampoon pieces might just as well be written by the same, mildly amusing...
...involved. He had just received outraged letters from . . . Crick and Wilkins . . .," are at best misleading. The letters from Crick and Wilkins, which caused President Pusey's concern, arrived in the late fall of 1966. I, as director of the Press, was immediately informed; I was kept in constant touch with the correspondence; and there was nothing unexpected about the President's decision to intervene. He considered the matter one of overall University policy; I think he was right in so viewing it, though I completely and emphatically disagree with the decision he and his colleagues reached which forced the Press...