Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the bridgehead, the Third Ukrainian Army of brilliant, heavy-set Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin then began an offensive. Despite the constant drizzle and occasional snow, despite rivers and swamps and wide ditches, the Russians spread out on the plain like a Danube flood. Through the railroad network of southwest Hungary they swelled to within 21 miles of Lake Balaton, central Europe's largest, reached 72 miles from Austria's nearest frontier. Mud was a curse. Moscow newspapers told of one unit that wallowed through mud for days, finally reached its first highway. Men cheered when they...
Virginius Dabney has arrived at his liberal views by patient, thoughtful effort and constant conflict with his patrician heritage. His editorials, ground out with painful slowness, are almost pedantically preoccupied with both sides of the question. They are invariably prosaic and humorless. His advocacy last year of the abolition of Jim Crow busses and streetcars in Virginia, which set the whole South on its ear, was put forward in a quiet editorial entitled "The Conservative Course in Race Relations." Excerpt: "Many Virginians probably do not know it, but we have now arrived at the point where radicals from the North...
Summa cum Laude awards among those graduating went to Fred Norman Fishman, in Engineering Sciences, and Hellmut Joseph Juretschke, in Electronic Physics, George Seiden, Peter S. Berger, Irving Constant, William H. White, Edward B. Burke, and Saul Touster, were the men receiving Magna cum Laude degrees...
...year's compulsory training for every able-bodied 18-year-old would provide the Army with a constant force-in-being of some half-million trainees. For emergencies the Army would have at hand a pool of ex-trainees, to be mobilized like its present force, by Selective Service. Men who had become essential to a war industry or had dependents would receive the same deferments as now. Men would not be called by age classes as in Europe...
...Japs came in small numbers (four was a good average), but they came often. By week's end there had been 70 separate raids. One night the Japs hit several places simultaneously every half hour between 12:30 and dawn. Tokyo's fantastic radio claimed that constant Jap attacks had driven the U.S. "Voice of Freedom" station...