Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proceeds across the U.S., a constant danger is that controller and pilot will somehow misunderstand each other. This apparently happened on Dec. 1, 1974, when TWA Flight 514 was approaching Dulles International Airport, outside Washington, D.C. Coming in too low, the plane crashed into a mountain while the helpless controller watched the blip disappear from his radarscope. Since that disaster, controllers, while giving the final clearance, read out specific altitude changes to pilots approaching all airports...
Without notice on Nov. 2, 1975, President Ford fired Schlesinger, ostensibly because Ford felt uneasy in the presence of his harsh Defense Secretary. "Bullshit," says Schlesinger. The real reason, he suspects, was his constant questioning of Kissinger's détente policies. After his ouster, Schlesinger passed up offers of high-paying positions in industry to become a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University and settled into a cramped office in Washington. ("I have never done anything for money.") A request from then Candidate Jimmy Carter for advice on defense policy led to his present...
...source of constant irritation to her is what she believes is the repressed body language of women in her audiences. "I see these very stiff, inhibited women who move and act so much like my character Mrs. Beasley, and I think it's criminal. This is what the culture has done to a lot of women-made them so uptight, so uncertain, so thwarted. It's a matter of power and powerlessness...
Last week New York State Supreme Court Justice John J. Leahy threw out the indictments and summarily dismissed the case as a "direct and blatant violation" of constitutionally guaranteed religious freedom. Leahy stated that the Hare Krishnas' "indoctrination and constant chanting" may create "an inability to think, to be reasonable or logical," but that does not make it any less a religion. Both of the supposed victims voluntarily submitted to the tightly regulated life in the local temple, he said. The prosecutors admitted that no physical coercion was involved, and they failed to show any "deception" that, under...
...Maggie and Leland were phosphorescent figures in Hollywood, New York, and on the Super Chief in between. But Maggie, Leland's third wife, was driven to seek a life (or perhaps an ordinariness) for herself and her children; she hated her husband's job and constant telephoning as much as she loved...