Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governs the horsemen's old and insatiable yearning to breed a horse with more speed and more stamina than the last one. Out of the mating of these two lines come numberless thrills, frequent beauties, many sorrows and not a few ills of commercial horse racing. Racing lives in constant worry of the anti-betting moralizers and of the legislators who write the tax laws (currently, 26 state treasuries are taking an approximate $150 million-a-year cut of the annual betting handle...
...Furry, having first refused to state whether he was, or ever had been, a member, subsequently, on April 16, 1953, had amended his testimony to state that he had not been a member of the Communist Party during the preceding two years. Dr. Markham had remained constant in her refusal to testify as the past or present membership. Mr. Kamin had stated that he was not a member of the Communist Party but had refused to say whether he had been a member on the day preceding his testimony...
...season of peaks, at least came off as an agreeable plateau. And beyond a nice steady flow of the respectable, the more-than-conventional, the slightly-better-than-average, there was a constant sense of small jets and gushes and freshets, and of a main flow fed by tributary streams. Perhaps more than anything else, 1953-54 was the season when off-Broadway began breathing, however faintly, down Broadway's neck. On lower Second Avenue, without having arisen out of anybody else's ashes, there emerged the Phoenix Theater. Whatever its shortcomings, it gave Manhattan its first really...
Lancaster predicts that animal art may some day be admitted, alongside that of children and primitives, to "the sanctified galleries of art museums." Says he: "When we consider that animal art has remained constant for so many, many centuries, perhaps we should give the animals their full due and recognize them as the perennial modernists. Our present-day art is akin to theirs in essence...
...ferocious posturing, China's Reds now want and need that "indispensable external condition." But external peace, to the Communists' way of thinking, is not won by good fellowship and accommodation. Nor is it a quiet state of live-and-let-live equilibrium. It is a state of constant agitation and movement, of keeping the pressure on, of feinting to suggest menace where no real menace exists and masking menace just when it is about to prevail. It is a state of yielding an inch only when it is satisfied it will gain a mile...