Word: constant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kids; they never grasp that parenthood is a full-time job, perhaps the most important job in a chronically changing America. They never see the challenge: teaching a child integrity-the self-respect that makes for strong, kind men and women who can cope with life's constant temptations to self-betrayal, and who are willing to face the fact that life is a set of problems to be solved...
...even the best is not infallible; even the smoothest of relationships can wrinkle in Washington's political heat. The Secretary's constant scrapping with Congress, though in behalf of Administration policies, became a more serious problem as Johnson's own rapport with the Hill lessened. And like some other high officials, McNamara occasionally made euphoric prophecies about Viet Nam that, while politically appropriate at the moment, later turned into ammunition for Johnson's critics. The most unfortunate boomerang was tossed in the fall of 1963, when McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor predicted that most U.S. troops...
...might not profit from four years at Harvard, there is nonetheless an incredible statistical consistency to the Harvard classes. The number of students admitted from California never doubles from one year to the next, and Exeter is never shut out completely. The number of Harvard sons admitted stays rather constant (although the number rejected is increasing rapidly), and the ratio of public school students to private school students changes at a slow and smooth rate, in the direction of the former...
...m.p.h. craft a year. The following year, Rachal switched to an all-metal plane, the single-engine Mark 21. The rakishly styled plane grew more popular with the addition in 1964 of a gyro-driven control system that automatically keeps the plane on course without constant pilot corrections...
...immensely popular teacher at Shady Hill, Ryerson is now the major force behind the Palfrey Street School. Working with his wife, Alice, the school psychologist, he is putting into practice his own theory of liberal education, teaches daily English classes, maintains a constant personal involvement in every detail of the problems of individual students and faculty members, as well as fulfilling his administrative duties...