Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Besides the 'official' or constant contributions, there are also extraordinary ones to be paid. . . . 'Constructing fences payment' is a polite term for kidnaping for ransom. If a peasant is unlucky, the Fire Society can easily arrest him on a charge of 'collaborating with bandits.' If he is clever and rich enough to send in some $200,000 CN or $300,000 CN, he becomes a 'repented' good citizen. Otherwise, his charge will change from collaboration to 'being a bandit'-and the sentence is death...
Isolated groups of men in Spitsbergen and Greenland, Burnet points out, generally withstand the arctic winter without illness but summer's first ship brings a violent epidemic of colds. Doctors think that vulnerable victims catch it from carriers who are immune through constant exposure. Even great flu epidemics like the 1918 pandemic, says Burnet, attack only a vulnerable minority of the population. And most flu epidemics quickly run their course, leaving the population immune, at least temporarily, to another epidemic...
...there so many faithful Moslems? British Author R. V. C. Bodley, who lived many years among them, suggests this partial answer: in the illimitable nothingness of the desert or the oppressive dark of the jungle, without the distractions of Western civilization, men find the need for worship constant and pressing...
...last week was something memorable. "Pierrot" was in almost constant fury. Looking like a bald, wet owl behind his big, black-rimmed spectacles, he squeaked invectives and obscenities at the top of his lung power, slammed telephones, kicked the furniture and insulted the mentalities of his reporters, editors and make-up men. The staffers took it calmly. They knew that five minutes after every squall Lazareff would be rushing around the plant and tenderly calling everybody "mon petit Coco...
...military would have charge of the actual training, but an overall commission of two civilians and one military man would be in command. Local boards, like draft boards, would register the neighbors' sons. Other civilian boards would keep constant watch on the welfare of the trainees. Army men might find civilian participation a little thick...