Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warmth and life of their own--along with several layers of seemingly ineradicable grime. Just to tread across the Yard, basking in that rich past housing a living tradition that no amount of mismanagement and folly can undo is always a moving sensation, even when one faces the constant peril of beaning at the hands of the student body's countless spastic frisbee hurlers...
Their marriage is subject to constant strain. John Adams feels bound to comply with the orders of the new government, even though it means putting thousands of miles between him and his beloved Abigail. She complains he doesn't write enough, presses him to return and often seems close to despair. Months pass before letters cross the Atlantic: some are lost and some are destroyed. And there is her husband's constant fear that one will fall into the hands of the British and be used as propaganda, which leads him to caution her to censor what she writes...
...parents did, inadvertently, help me find my own solution to the Christmas dilemma one year when I was about 14. Their names used to turn up on every crackpot mailing list in the country, and consequently we would get a constant barrage of all sorts of propaganda. One of our most frequent correspondents was a woman named Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the self-appointed apostle of American atheists. The way she handled Christmas was not to fight it, but to join it. Christmas, she announced in a brochure that appeared in our mailbox one day in early December...
...place, the oldest house in the town, to the faceless men of the department of education for a parking lot (now occupied) by a faceless building), there had been acrimony, arguments about the nature of progress, between usurpers and usurpees. This time, no." By now, Daddy is resigned to constant change, to being part of a "mobile family." Even though he is homesick for America, and his family wants a secure home, they will not settle down. All the Daddy-author can do is try to live with the latest of a series of rented houses in a strange environment...
Says MacPherson: "It's not just the demands, the constant travel, the constituents. It's the inner core of the politician to begin with. The kind of person who picks politics for a career is one who is not comfortable with one-on-one relationships. He prefers, all too often, the roar of the crowd." Among the results of such pressures: Joy Baker, after living most of her life for two Senators−father, Everett Dirksen and husband, Howard Baker−says sadly, "Politics has nullified my personality." Sharon Percy Rockefeller reports that her three-year...