Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holiday cockfights in honor of the first anniversary of Philippine independence. In Manila, President Manuel Roxas discussed his Government's political and economic progress. Said Roxas: "Organized resistance has almost ceased." To give force to his words, a battalion of Hukbalahaps, pro-Communist guerrilla fighters who have waged constant war against the government, marched past the reviewing stand...
Even in the chancelleries where Eva's trip had been planned (President Perón hailed it as "the greatest act of its kind in Argentine history"), anguished ministers kept constant tabs on Eva by transatlantic telephone. "If only," thought some, their fingers crossed, "she'll keep off politics!" At the last minute, four weeks ago, when Eva was about to take off from Morón airport, President Perón had rushed his pet ghostwriter aboard her plane, just in case. But one never could tell about Eva. To the women of Spain, on the first...
...eleven months of their joint reign, the Argentine Government announced recently, Eva has given away in her husband's name some $4,280,000 worth of schoolbooks, clothes, shoes, furniture, toys, cakes and cider. The gifts are always accompanied by one of Eva's flowery speeches, with constant references to the "heart of Perón" and the "heart of Evita." So standard have these phrases become that opposition Cartoonist Tristan draws bejeweled Eva as a blank face with a heart-shaped mouth as her only identification. Last November, when Evita traveled to the sugar-rich Tucum...
...itself is a menace to health, McFarland thinks. Scientific tests have shown that the modern plane cabin is almost as noisy as a subway train. On a long flight, McFarland reports, noise can increase fatigue, inefficiency and irritability to the danger point. There is no proof, he says, that constant flying permanently deafens airmen, but it does reduce their hearing in the higher frequencies (a deaf spot known as "aviator's notch"). The plane's vibration also may have bad physical effects; on a long flight it temporarily impairs vision and deadens certain reflexes...
Freezing is not the only hazard in an earthworm's uncertain life: burrowing beetles, bloodthirsty slugs, spiders and porcupines are all constant menaces. Worms stay below ground until nightfall, when they can safely emerge to do their courting and prowling. Living such a life, the earthworm is intensely nervous and sensitive to the slightest vibration of danger. Though blind, it has learned to pick up the tremors of an approaching sparrow and to snap back into its hole like a rubber band...