Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chair. Benedict subsequently designated Neumann as Venerable (worthy of veneration and a proper recipient of private prayers)-the beginning of the long process to sainthood. In doing so the Pope set a precedent for the future judgment of possible saints by declaring: "Even the most simple works, performed with constant perfection in the midst of inevitable difficulties, spell heroism in any servant...
...sought a style to express. "Developing a calligraphic style is just as difficult as learning to walk," Kirchner wrote. A drawing such as his large Nude on a Bed (1908), one of the highlights of the Bergen collection, shows that the search for style was a conscious endeavor, involving constant formal training. The work, in charcoal over pencil outline, seems a careful and fairly conventional life-study until one looks more closely at the way in which Kirchner is defining form. The legs and feet are oddly arresting, because one can see a purer, simpler from emerging in this portion...
Jody soon became Carter's constant companion, crisscrossing dreary, dusty stretches of Georgia in search of voters. Familiarity bred candor. Jody began sending Carter notes almost every day suggesting what the candidate was doing wrong. Jimmy bristled at first, then began paying closer attention: Jody was often right. "Jimmy doesn't like to be hit head-on with something," says a White House insider. "Jody is a master at approaching from oblique angles...
Amphetamines or "speed," popular and widespread during reading and exam periods. Amphetamines go by many names from "dexies" to "beauties" to "speckled birds." They are addictive for constant pill-poppers and brutal on the heart and central nervous system, as are most hard drugs...
...dusty boots. One explanation frequently offered for this phenomenon of peripatetic organizations is that while many of the groups are formed by individuals seeking relief from the insecurities of modern mass culture, others are actually being moved by some unseen bureaucratic force, which has an ulterior motive in stimulating constant movement. See Erik Von Daniken's discussion of this theory in Chariots of the Gods...