Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record of the voluminous Congressional hearings on the Economic Cooperation Act. He became so interested in this extraordinary U.S. venture for European and world recovery that he began devoting most of his time to it. To clarify the Act's many generalities and perplexing statements, he became a constant interrogator at EGA and related government bureaus and at the foreign embassies. In the end, his careful, detailed study became a voluminous report on what the European Recovery Program means to the U.S. businessman (unlike Lend-Lease, etc. it is to be conducted largely through normal business channels...
...main, however, Life With Mother, like Life With Father, is the broadly painted picture of a man and a marriage, the chronicle of a household and record of a class. Here again a rambunctious blusterer of Manhattan's horsecar era wages endless battle and suffers constant defeat, chiefly at the hands of a wife who flutters helplessly with cunning. Here again are growing boys and departing servants, the wall phones and other period touches, the breakfast tables and other permanent realities, of well-heeled bourgeois life...
...fastest man in the Holy Cross backfield is wingback Bobby Farrell. A varsity track man, he is considered a constant breakaway threat and is playing his second year of varsity ball...
...Reality. Liddell Hart gives fragments of his discussions with Field Marshal von Kleist (who conducted the retreat from Russia) and a dozen others. They all had bitter recollections-Hitler's disregard of their advice; their success in carrying out impossible orders, only to be supplanted afterwards; the constant surveillance of the Gestapo. General von Manteuffel, an army commander at 47, told how Hitler would intoxicate himself with figures and quantities...
...never hesitated to ask influential friends to advance his cause, resented being second in anything and lived in constant fear of losing "preferment, character, credit, esteem, honor...