Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highest average speed lap on a closed circuit track, even though A.J. Foyt broke his record at Talladega, Ala., last August. But anyway, the McWhirters themselves--they are Oxford men, after all--are more restrained. In their more modest opinion, the annually revised Guinness Book maintains a fairly constant level of amazement. "We worked out the categories for the first edition." Ross says proudly, "and we haven't had to change them since. It was all there right from the beginning--a mixture of the serious and the zany...
...Monroe took it away from her. Three times Holt married and divorced John Sarkesian, Cher's father, a compulsive gambler and later a heroin addict, although Cher did not meet him until she was eleven ("I hated him"). Between and after these marriages there were five others. Poverty, constant changes of address, a short stay in a Catholic nursing home for the needy were all part of Cher's childhood. Even a three-year burst of prosperity, when her mother wed a banking executive, seemed like just another form of instability...
What seems to draw southerners home...is a genuine aching and evidently almost constant need to re-experience themselves it is this need that I have noted only rarely in Texas. Texas is very new--still very new--and it has always been urgent, intemperate, and barbaric...The cattle kingdom was not the cotton kingdom: it had no refinement, no architecture, and no leisured class--certainly no leisured ladies. Even now, few Texans slow down to look at their energy is far more phone to the masochism of overwork than to the sweeter masochism of nostalgia, a preference that...
...refugees in Phnom Penh, having fed the fighting in the countryside, especially since the most recent Khmer Rouge offensive began. But except for the few very rich, life in the capital would appall any observers more sensitive to pain and deprivation than Americans are now after decades of constant, televised warfare in Asia...
Sanders's conservative basketball philosophy was the source of constant conflict. Those team members who mastered his slow-down style of offense were more often seen in action than those who preferred to fastbreak. The final record is the lone indicator of whose style is best. That and the fact that more often than not the second team beat the first in practice...