Word: constantly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Weary of his constant battle with the other commissioners, Strauss resigned from the AEC in 1950, and returned to New York to become financial adviser to the Rockefellers. Last week, as he prepared to move back into the AEC building, Lewis Strauss was hailed by Democrats and Republicans alike as one of the President's best appointments...
...broadcast behind the Iron Curtain on the BBC's Polish program; then he called a press conference. He told of the famous trip from New York in 1949, when Communist Gerhart Eisler was stowed aboard and delivered to Poland; discussed how he and all aboard were under constant order of a political officer named Peter Szemiel, so that his own duty was "strictly navigational-I was only the driver." He said that 500 officers and men had recently been purged from the Polish merchant navy. He himself had never joined the Communist Party: "I told them...
Valletta, a self-made man whose constant traveling and shrewd bargaining make him Fiat's best salesman, quickly got things humming again. By last week, Fiat was turning out 500 cars a day, twice its prewar peak, and its huge iron & steel works, including the biggest cold-rolling mill on the Continent, had doubled its prewar capacity. Last year Fiat reported a $4,000,000 net on $320 million sales...
...Poor Constant; he now feels as chained as he had once felt to his wife. So he goes back to his other sweetheart, Madame de Malbee. When that redoubtable woman learns about Cécile, the storm lasts all day and all night. It leaves Constant still suspended between the two women. He is too weak to escape from Madame de Malbee and too indecisive to marry Cécile...
With typical irresolution, Constant never finished Cécile, but life worked out an ending of sorts. Madame de Stael found a younger lover who was not so good a conversationalist. Constant married Charlotta, and thereupon fell in love with the beautiful Madame Recamier...