Word: constantly
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...thick and treacherous as the Tunisian mud was the political situation (see p. 32). A constant, silent threat was the Rif territory of Spanish Morocco, lying squarely behind the Allied lines and along the Straits of Gibraltar. Estimates of the number of Spanish troops there ran from 100,000 to 200,000. Among them were efficient fighting men-the Spanish Foreign Legion and tough Moors. Short of heavy equipment, they were well enough armed to hack an attenuated supply line. As long as Fascist Premier Franco ran Spain, sullen, uncertain Spanish Morocco would pin down a certain number of watchful...
Topolski's art is in the tradition of the great draftsmen Daumier, Callot, Hogarth, his earlier work astoundingly like that of France's Benjamin-Constant. Says Topolski: "My particular love, my aim, and object in art" is Descriptive Draftsmanship-which he believes to be perishing...
...Constant Allied raids on Italian depots disrupted Axis transportation at its source. Constant Allied attacks were slowly demolishing African receiving points. One day last week heavy bombers ranged for eight hours over smoking La Goulette, port of Tunis. Light and heavy bombers pounded Bizerte and railroad lines near Sfax and Gabés. Growing Allied air power was getting an edge on the Luftwaffe. General James Doolittle's Twelfth Air Force announced that U.S. flyers since the beginning of the campaign had destroyed 70 enemy planes, damaged 43. U.S. losses...
...were stirring up the Indians to attack the settlers. Seven members of the Service of Protection to Indians (an old organization devoted to the preservation and protection of Brazilian tribes) were reported killed in Indian raids. Men sent to build landing fields and develop sanitation stations were in constant danger of being killed by natives or disease...
Mary Booth, still in her Salvation Army uniform, had no easy time at Petershausen. When she arrived, together with her short, plump secretary, the Gestapo men said disgustedly: "Ach, the Salvation Army's coming!" To them she was a constant source of ridicule; to her fellow prisoners-Poles, Frenchmen, a few Englishwomen and some British sailors-she was a source of fascination. She never took her Army bonnet off in public. In the thrice-daily exercise periods (two hours in the morning, four in the afternoon, one after supper) she strode determinedly around the schoolyard, her secretary always three...