Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glare of floodlights suddenly fell on the defendants' faces. A small, stocky woman walked toward the dock. She pointed at a thin-lipped, narrow-eyed man with a low. receding forehead and brows grown together in a constant frown. "This man I recognize," she said. (It was Joseph Kramer, commandant of Belsen concentration camp.) The woman walked on. "This man I recognize." (It was Fritz Klein, Belsen's doctor.) She moved on down the line of defendants, picking out a dozen others...
...attack on Pearl Harbor before the strike, the ex-Premier would not be sure. But on the general ignorance and confusion in Japanese high quarters he was emphatic. Tojo, he insisted, was unaware of the Battle of Midway at the time it was being fought. There was constant friction between the Army, Navy and State Departments...
...when Carl Mydans first walked through the streets of Tokyo he must have thought many times of the 21 months of "constant, oozing fear" he and his wife Shelley spent as prisoners of the Japs after their capture in Manila...
...general, by the Army Board's account, liaison in Washington between the War, Navy and State Department heads and the two chiefs of the Army & Navy was close. There were constant huddles and exchanges of information. It was mostly on the second level of bureaucracy. i.e., Army & Navy top levels, that orders got confused and lost...
...road was also in constant use by two million nomadic savages, who were dead-shots with the kind of sling that David used against Goliath, and who spent their spare time stripping the copper wire off the line of telegraph poles. The nomads explained that they knew all about war: their ancestors had fought a dandy one against the Sumerians in 3000 B.C., and their ruling Khan unfailingly subscribed to the airmail edition of TIME...