Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stanley Cloud, Tuesday's primaries ended nine months of almost constant travel with Jimmy Carter. Looking back, he finds that two episodes stand out. There was a night last September when Carter was stranded at a deserted airstrip in rural New Hampshire. The man who was to become his party's nominee waited in the silent dark 30 minutes for someone-anyone-to give him a lift. The other episode also occurred in that crucial early primary. Says Cloud: "A status test for reporters in the Carter campaign is whether or not you were on the 'white...
...demonstrated that quality at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts. He sauntered onstage, took a gulp of beer, then stepped forward with his Fender Telecaster guitar. The youthful audience welcomed him with screams and cheers. For the next two hours, Buchanan and his three sidemen played to constant outbursts from the crowd: "Come on, Roy ... Right on, Roy." Roy responded by singing about half the 18 songs on the program, including the wailing Roy's Bluz and the chuckling My Cat Walked Out Last Sunday. But the biggest applause came for the broad, sweeping melody that...
...case at many U.S. colleges and universities, there is constant pressure to get good grades (see following story). The "goats," with the low marks, sit at the back of a classroom, while the "engineers" sit up front and get special privileges. Still the electrical engineering exam that is at the root of the current scandal was worth only 5% of the final grade in that course. Indeed the students being hauled before the Honor Committee included good students as well as borderline cases...
...study was based on a week of constant viewing of all Los Angeles stations, projected, with industry figures, to age-group viewing habits...
...hold strong hands in the delegate numbers game--the latter spent $1 million for one Massachusetts delegate. Another often-mentioned vice-presidential possibility, Sen. John Glenn, of Ohio and Outer Space, is a political neophyte--something the Carter campaign abounds in--and unless the delegate situation is really desperate, constant primary bickering between Carter and Mo Udall would preclude the choice of the Arizona Congressman. And a Carter-Jerry Brown would be unbalanced in ideology and constituency which would mean sitting this one out for many Democrats...