Word: constant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After news of the enemy attacks reached Washington, Johnson kept constant alert, pouncing on more than 25 reports that were rushed to him through the evening and night. At 5 a.m., he was up for a briefing in the basement Situation Room of the White House. Before breakfast, he was on the phone twice to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. "He has a mental alarm clock," said Presidential Press Secretary George Christian. "He's working like a dog, keeping tabs on everything...
Whatever Giap's immediate aims, it has been clear to Hanoi for some time that something drastic had to be done in South Viet Nam. Captured cadre notes spoke of a "counteroffensive." Depressed by constant defeats on the battlefield and consigned to stay in South Viet Nam until the war was over, the infiltrated North Vietnamese regulars were growing weary and restive. They badly needed a victory to bolster their morale, or at least a major initiative that they could call their...
Living in 5-ft.-high igloos and plywood huts that are frozen-not nailed - together, the searchers often work in 30° F. temperatures and 35 m.p.h. winds that combine to produce an equivalent of -100° F. cold. Frostbite is a constant hazard, and flashlight batteries freeze into uselessness after ten minutes of exposure. Men returning from the crash site must be checked for radiation, have their garments vacuumed and their noses swabbed with cotton dabbed in alcohol-all part of the decontamination process...
...social justice." By wintertime, when it appeared certain that his department would not get anything like the money he thought it needed, Gardner seemed convinced that neither the President nor the nation had the will to respond. "No society," he said at year's end, "can live in constant tumult. We will have either a civil order in which discipline is internalized in the breast of each free and responsible citizen or, sooner or later, we will have repressive measures designed to re-establish order...
...earth to a fixed point on the moon with an accuracy of 6 in., measurements that should enable scientists to learn the precise size of the moon, to analyze its motions, to confirm continental drift on the earth, and perhaps even to learn if the universe's gravitational constant is changing...