Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Music Everywhere. Throughout all this, only the music has been a constant. Getting into a school chum's rec ord collection, Jim puts on a Buddy Holly album with more eagerness than he has shown except when he left home...
...sophomore guard duo of Dave Rogers and Jonas Honick will be the stabilizing constant in an otherwise makeshift Crimson lineup...
...trumpeter can puff himself up so much that the air pressure inside him may exceed that of an average automobile tire (24 lbs. per sq. in.). No other wind player can make that statement. No other musician can literally become so dizzy so easily. No other has such a constant fight between muscular tension and interpretive relaxation and grace...
Further restricting challenger effectiveness are the 'spending proportional to population' guidelines for Senate races, Gorman said. While fixed costs of candidacy--phones, secretary, speech-writers--remain fairly constant from state to state, in Delaware for example the new laws will make simply opening an office almost impossible for a Senatorial candidate, he said...
...Once when someone was explaining how the landlords had finally done an about-face and adopted Confucianism to safeguard their privileges, I asked why this hadn't happened sooner. "Well," the man explained, "they needed it to prevent revolts." Had there been a big wave of revolts? "There were constant revolts, all along." Then why just then? He gave me a pitying smile...