Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old girl in a mental hospital tried to kill herself last fall with the only weapon at hand, a 2½-in. sewing needle. She succeeded in getting it be tween her ribs and into her heart, but she did not die. Though the needle was a constant threat to her life, doctors let it alone for a month until the patient became calm enough to undergo an operation. X rays, meanwhile, showed that the needle was working its way through the tough heart muscle...
...heavy artillery barrages settled over Cassino like constant squalls of steel, slicing the buildings down while soldiers fled from the upper to the lower stories, then to the basements. Whole squads disappeared beneath collapsing walls. The limits of the barrage froze something approximating a battle line running through the town, with a No-Man's Land sometimes only ten yards wide. Any soldier who stepped into that strip in daylight was a dead...
Europe and Asia, on the other hand, were inverted bowls, sloping off from the central Alps and Himalayas. In Gilpin's view these geographical facts doomed the two continents to division, jealousy, rivalry and constant warfare. Russia, however, was the Eurasian exception: in topography and resources it was more like the U.S. Gilpin thought the U.S. and Russia would follow the same pattern of growth -the U.S. moving westward to the Pacific, Russia eastward to the Pacific...
Time of Danger. The Album provides an answer. Among the knickknacks and decorations of life, the pots and kettles and meat barrels, there were the objects which testified to the sense of constant danger and the sense of constant strangeness under which the hard-working colonials lived. The barrel of pitch on Beacon Hill in Boston, to be lighted in case of attack, was a far more meaningful landmark than the fire-alarm boxes on contemporary corners-though the menace it was intended to warn against may have been less than city dwellers face today. The animals were strange...
Communists in Chungking retort that they: 1) cannot dissolve their armies and submit to Kuomintang military, civil and economic control without a guarantee of their survival as a political party; 2) fight the Japs wherever and whenever possible; 3) live under constant threat from 23 of the best of China's 113 Central Armies plus 45 others in reserve...