Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Center Nancy Sato said Radcliffe played its "best game, team-work wise," of the season, but that constant shuffling of the defense was the defense's biggest problem...
There is one final attack on the UFW implicit in Mr. Ferrara's article which should not go unanswered. Mr. Ferrara repeatedly refers to the UFW as "Chavez." He speaks of "Chavez" getting control of workers, of "Chavez's strike," of workers not supporting "Chavez." There is the constant implication that the union is controlled and manipulated by one man. This is the hardest kind of attack to rebut, because it is never even stated explicitly, much less documented. But if Mr. Ferrara thinks that the UFW is undemocratically run, if he thinks that the election of Chavez...
...Thin Man [1934]. This is one of the finest comedies of the thirties. Dashiell Hammett wrote the script from his own crime novel of the same name, and drew the marriage of Nick and Nora Charles from his own arrangement with Lillian Hellman--a quick and sophisticated rapport where constant insults only feed their affection. Their craziness is harmonious because everyone else is a creep. William Powell and Myrna Loy star, having cocktail number one at breakfast and shooting out the tree bulbs at Christmas...
...Constant messengers of hope assail them. Periodically, an old biddy pops in to pass out leaflets and verbal pep pills: "Good morning. I have a message for you. It's that God gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life." Moments later, the ballet of death begins again as white screens wheel and circle to shield in final decorum the bed of a dying patient...
Certainly "preprofessionalism" is the word of the day, and sociologists and columnists can readily provide the statistics supporting their constant use of it. The only thing that changes now is the constant rise in the percentage of undergraduates who plan to go on to some form of professional training...