Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agents carry .357 Magnum revolvers in shoulder holsters. They keep in constant touch via powerful short-wave walkie-talkies; to keep both hands free at all times, they wear earpieces, transceivers on their belts, and tiny microphones at their wrists. The working style of the agents immediately guarding the President tends to reflect his own personality. Kennedy's agents were alert but relatively inconspicuous and, like their charge, showed a fondness for the good life. Johnson's entourage tended to be tenser and more belligerent, sometimes silencing hecklers with flying tackles. The Secret Servicemen surrounding Nixon were characteristically aloof...
...with the abductors may seem to be his or her only mechanism for survival. A helpless captive ends up fusing with the ideas of a group and doing things he or she as an individual would never have done. Life on the run with the S.L.A. was one of constant stress, at war in a hostile country with a friendly underground." West thinks that Patty could make a healthy adjustment to normal life, "depending upon how carefully she is handled by family, friends, doctors, and presumably the courts...
...Agent Charles Bates announced the capture of Patty Hearst, later talked with members and friends of the Hearst family and also coordinated bureau coverage. Correspondent John Austin visited the scenes where the arrests were made and also filed a running chronology of events. Stringer Paul Ciotti maintained an almost constant vigil on the street near the scene of the arrests. Los Angeles Bureau Chief Jess Cook grabbed a plane to San Francisco as soon as he heard the news. "You deserve a little luck in this business," he says. "Who should be on the same plane but Catherine Hearst...
...estrangement from her family as a result of her illness. In Theresa's withdrawal from her family, her only connection with people aside from her rigidly structured parochial school, Rossner lays the groundwork for Theresa's passivity toward all the men in her life. Her reaction to the constant unspoken reproach, the pity, is to bury her anxiety over her deformity as deeply inside her as possible. But it preoccupies her constantly...
...constant giving necessary for empathy, the continuing concern and care that lead to understanding, are forever thwarted by the pride and selfishness that are so much a part of our human nature. Everyone has had different experiences at different times--good, bad, horrible, and more rarely, wonderful--in situations that hinge on the raised consciousness of women. It is the variety, the richness of these experiences, that I hoped the October issue of Ms. magazine could illuminate with its Special Issue...