Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment you give us the green light." Army Secretary Wilber Brucker, who had accompanied McElroy, raised a hand of objection: "Not 60 days." Von Braun was insistent: "Sixty days." General Medaris settled it: "Ninety days." Neil McElroy remembered the Army's promise (for that matter the Army, with constant pleas for a stake in space, did not give him a chance to forget), and two weeks after taking office he made his decision. Wernher von Braun heard about it when Medaris' voice came over his Redstone squawk box. "Wernher," said Medaris...
...classmates, many of them combat veterans, are given to wisecracks about the security net and Ramfis' exalted rank (even though he has temporarily downgraded himself to full colonel while at the staff college). Ramfis' Leavenworth neighbors, a quiet, upper-middle-class group, are jittery over the constant patrolling. "They even flash spotlights into my date's car," lamented a 17-year-old. "I've been embarrassed to death night after night. Is that...
...plan to build a small car in the U.S.? Curtice answered: "Over the years that has been under constant study. Thus far it has not been economic to offer a small car. That is because you take the value out of it so much more rapidly than you do the cost...
...find myself upon a constant downward slope
...eliminating effective participation of the teacher, the group is denied what it needs most: the constant infusion of new ideas, the push, pull and stretch by a challenging, directing and driving leader. Ideas seldom spring spontaneously; they are communicated, i.e., taught...