Word: constant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meet that goal, constant redesigning was necessary, and prices soared. McNamara had originally estimated that one F-111A would cost $2.9 million; its current price tab is approximately $7,000,000, and the Navy version may cost as much as $10 million because of expensive weight-cutting programs and more complex missile systems. Despite the extra costs, the Air Force's F-111A currently is capable of making only a 100-mile low-level supersonic dash, and the Navy's model is still 7,000 Ibs. too heavy for optimum carrier use. The Air Force feels that...
...Under constant taunts from their captors, the artillerymen were forced to crawl, wallow in mud, hang by their legs from a horizontal bar, sit for seemingly endless minutes with their legs wrapped painfully around a pole. The guards badgered them for information beyond the maximum-name, rank and serial number-sanctioned by the Geneva Treaty. A sympathetic "Red Cross" representative tried to wheedle additional intelligence out of them, but most immediately spotted him as a phony...
...possession rubs some people the wrong way. Some actors dislike working with her, and one called her "a golden pain in the behind." They abhor her trademark mannerisms, the way she stutters and flutters her hands before uttering a line, as if about to goof it. Sandy is a constant hair pusher: in the first few minutes of Up the Down Stair case, she pushed three times. She is also an oral actress: a lip biter, tongue twitcher, mouth closer and chin wrinkler. Her vocal rhythm is a hesitation tango; her midsentence gasps leave audiences gasping...
...powerful governing bureaucracy. New regulations will bring to an end the dominance of a small clique of elderly, ultra-conservative Italian cardinals who have clung to the levers of power for a lifetime and used their position to stifle reform. Now the doors are open to a constant flow of clerics with varied backgrounds and, most important, new ideas...
...early to say what the changes would bring. As he has frequently done in the past, the Pope may still decide to hedge the liberalism of the Curia reform with several conservative appointments. But as Pope John himself may have realized during his constant battle with the Curia, the new spirit that he ushered into the church can never really take hold without exactly the kind of administrative revolution that Pope Paul has now decreed...