Word: constant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tweddell's second goal of the game evened the score at three. But, true to its familiar late-game heroics, the Crimson responded by applying constant pressure at the Green side of the net and tightening up on defense...
...preciously good speaker and even knew how to pull cub reporters aside at student senate meetings to explain the complicated goings-on. Friends kidded the student-body president about combing his hair down over his forehead in the style of John Kennedy. A college sweetheart recalls that the constant comparisons had an effect on Gephardt. "It was hard to look that much like J.F.K. and not talk of the presidency," she says...
...underweight and malnourished, the result of giving up almost all forms of food except coffee, sugar and, of course, alcohol. I was in the early stages of delirium tremens, the DTs. I sometimes heard faint ringing noises in my ears and suffered unexpected waves of vertigo. I felt near constant pressure in my lower back and sides from the punishment my liver and kidneys were taking. My personality was also seriously diseased. I was nervous, reclusive, by turns extravagantly arrogant and cringingly apologetic. I tried to cover my extremes of mood with brittle cheerfulness, even though I was desperately afraid...
...loneliness of a long-shot runner involves a constant struggle to retain a sense of humanity. Day after day, town after town, Babbitt trudges on in an electoral blur, answering endless questions and shaking an uncountable number of hands. One recent night in New York City, his wife Hattie arrived and crept / into bed while he was asleep. He awoke before dawn to catch a plane to Pittsburgh. All they shared was a tap on the shoulder."Some mornings," Babbitt concedes, "you wake up and say, 'I can't take another day of this...
...show business contagious laughter breeds continual loot; the man who could not get arrested in Hollywood last year is now a well-paid pitchman for Honda and is in constant demand for TV specials and sitcoms. There are a book and a record based on his show, and in January he will begin filming Caddyshack II, a big-budget film about a self-made millionaire who joins a snobbish country club -- only to run afoul of the members when he develops a low-income housing project nearby. In 1987 the comedian will gross well over $1 million...