Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...innumerable gods of the Egyptians embodied the people's ceaseless attempts to fill all the chinks and crannies through which the innumerable misfortunes of life might enter. The life of Joseph's mind, supple, varied, quick, humorous, was a constant preoccupation with religious problems so difficult that their very statement is tedious to the plain reader. Thomas Mann makes it plain that Joseph was a great religious poet. For, among many other things, Mann's Joseph is a portrait of the artist as a God-guided egoist...
...Instead of waging constant war against an enemy without, the newspapers would do well to take steps against the enemy within. They would do well, too, to take warning from the widening gulf that separates the conception of freedom held by themselves and that held by the people...
Today is D plus three. Nobody has had his boots off yet. Until yesterday we were surrounded, under constant fire. There will be more of it. But the beachhead forces have joined up with us and now the shells are going in the other direction...
...Partisan warfare makes proper medication impossible, with all the Allied help. The basic principle of the Partisan strategy is never to defend a certain area at all costs, but to retreat when the enemy pressure reaches a certain point and conquer new territories else where. This means constant movement of the improvised hospitals and the wounded; therefore, there is no permanent hospital or rest for anybody when the pokret (movement) is ordered...
Unable to give her speech because of the constant interruption of cheers and snatches of song, Carrie finally gave up in disgust, abandoning the Harvard boys to their horrible fate...