Word: constant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boston College tri-captain Billy McDonough played about 5000 minutes of hockey during his first three years at B.C. Of those 5000 minutes, he spent only 12 in the penalty box--a remarkable statistic considering the constant mayhem that is ECAC hockey...
...long as the Beanpot is perceived as a tournament of constant upsets, the underdogs will have that extra edge and the favorites will continue to be a little nervous. It the trend keeps up, it should be a long time before any team gets a lock on the Beanpot once again as B.C. and B.C. did. And it your trying to pick up a little extra money on the first two Mondays in February, you'd be better off scalping extra tickets than betting on the outcome inside...
Prison life meant bitterly cold winters, the loss of all written contact with relatives and friends, the abolition of privacy in the cramped sleeping quarters, and the constant threat of violence from both jailers and the jailed. This regimen did not break Dostoevsky; it inspired him to see himself and those around him in a strange new light. He had been the dupe of a foreign ideology, which had seduced him toward treason; the other convicts, beneath their horrid exteriors, manifested a beatific, instinctively Christian and compassionate Slavic soul. Writes Frank...
...that mechanization had increased to the point where 100,000 sugar-cane cutters were doing the work formerly done by 350,000, and that similar productivity gains applied to other branches of industry. Castro heaped scorn on some other Latin American nations, particularly Brazil, where huge foreign debts accompany "constant reports of social calamities, unemployment, hunger, inflation...
David Mitten, Loeb Professor of Ancient Art and Archaeology, went to Sardis in 1959 as a graduate student, and has returned almost every summer since. He describes the excavation as a kind of "ongoing seminar," where the research and finds are the subjects of constant discussion and the collaboration between the Americans and their Turkish colleagues is stimulating and rewarding, warding...