Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down in mule stalls, took walks along dark tunnels lit only by their battery-fed cap lamps, and relaxed with Communist papers sent down from the shaft head. On the surface, their families camped forlornly near -barbed-wire enclosures redolent with the rotten-egg smell of sulphur furnaces. A constant stream of baskets containing fish, cheese, soup and meat passed through the gate to be sent below. With the baskets went an occasional note. "If you don't come up, I'll go away forever," wrote one wife. Her husband scrambled out of the emergency exit...
Feted by the Federal Bar Association for his "constant and unselfish support" of Government employees, former Government Employee J. Howard McGrath, who last April was fired by the President from his job as U.S. Attorney General, recalled the Mark Twain character who got ridden out of town on a rail. The deportee's words, as quoted by Lawyer McGrath: "If it were not for the honor of the occasion, I should rather have walked...
...usually looks as though he had just come in out of a high wind. His laughter often shakes the walls of the room, and he will discuss his ideas by the hour, sometimes humorously, with nearly anybody who happens to visit him. These discussions, accompanied by toothy grins and constant puffs from a pipe, are so lengthy and enthusiastic that they sometimes seduce him from more important work...
...responsibility rests with her . . . Children are not chattels to be passed back and forth between parents to satisfy their pride, convenience and desires, at the expense of the welfare of those children. The parent having physical custody necessarily has the advantage, for besides having the child's constant regard, love and companionship, that parent . . . can and unfortunately often does, intentionally or otherwise, turn the affection and interest away from the parent not having custody ..." Another deciding factor in the court's ruling: Pia's "unfavorable opinion" of Actress Bergman's second husband, Italian Movie Director Roberto...
This week the day came when the Assembly, under the constitution, was supposed to elect a new President for a four-year term beginning next month. But with eleven Assemblymen in jail, others under constant police threat and the capital at Pusan under martial law (in defiance of an Assembly vote), Rhee's opponents boycotted the Assembly. Without a legal quorum, the Assembly voted, 60-to-0 with 37 abstentions, to keep Rhee in office until a new President is elected. Lacking a quorum the move was hardly legal, but it seemed nevertheless to leave Strongman Syngman...