Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie. The Irving Berlin tunes are topnotch: "Show Business," "Doin' What Comes Naturally," "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun," "Falling in Love," "The Sun in the Morning and the Moon at Night," "The Girl I Marry." And even though Betty Hutton feels compelled to keep in constant and anatomically miraculous motion during her songs, she still has the bounce and fire required for any successor to Ethel Merman...
What also hurt was the snubs and ruthless practical jokes with which most of the club members liked to torment him. Zanuck, who has never lost the fervor for practical joking that he acquired as a constant victim of it, recalls that the pranks were "not always too pleasant, too nice...
...visited her constantly. But he worried about her future. He lost his job in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, which, after constant financial difficulty, finally folded up. One morning last spring, he called at the sanitarium, told attendants he was taking Virginia to a dentist, drove her away in his automobile. Down a side road, he stopped his car, put a pillow behind the girl's head, and shot her dead. Then he fired two shots into his own chest, lost consciousness, revived, and shot himself twice more...
...Much of the skill in this game seemed to be the ability to intimidate your opponents by 'keeping the chatter up.' Every member of a team, whether on or off the field, appeared to be offering a constant supply of advice or ridicule, and if this did not achieve its original object it certainly kept the crowd amused...
Such regularity in a chart usually means that an overall law is operating. Dr. Benioff studied more records, made more charts, and found evidence that the earth generates earthquake-producing strain at a constant rate. When the strain is not released in earthquakes, it accumulates at crustal weak points until something has to give. Then comes a series of earthquakes, followed by a period of quiet until more strain has accumulated...