Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...constant repetition in the repertory theatre makes for great plays, which are not constantly criticized as they are in Boston, Philadelphia and Broadway; and it is great pity there are not more such theatres...
...last week simultaneously in the U.S. and Britain. Like many another message directed to the prancing paranoid who planned to rule the world from Berlin, it revealed not so much historical fact as the fantastic lengths of self-deception followed by Hitler's ever-toadying diplomats in their constant effort to tell the Führer what he wanted to hear...
...Kerr's Goodchild, while an American Odysseus and Natty Bumpo, is also a race-memory of the desire for freedom inherent in man's soul from the dimly-remembered dawn of pre-recorded history. Goodchild's successful conquering of his own soul and youthful vigor symbolize the constant reincarnation of man's unquenchable spirit; the white dove of his lofty aspirations columns heavenward, linking Classic and American aspirations, and those of all eternity
Standing toe to toe against the looming Soviet-satellite army of 175 divisions keeps the five-division U.S. Seventh Army in Germany on constant alert against the day the "balloon goes up" in Western Europe. Merely staying combat-ready in peacetime is tough enough, but the hard-training Seventh is plagued by an even tougher problem: one in three of its 165,000 tankers, atomic cannoneers and plain gravel crunchers should never have been sent overseas in the first place. Reason: they are "eight balls," mentally equivalent to sixth-grade schoolboys, a disciplinary headache to their commanders and a serious...
...written his ten questions on the blackboard than twelve of his 16 students began following an old Spanish custom by discussing the questions aloud and threshing out their answers. During the whole two hours they peered at one another's papers, passed around notes, kept up a constant chatter. McNaughton begged in vain for silence. When he asked three of the most recalcitrant students to move to other desks, one flatly refused. Finally, the desperate professor implored his interpreter to intervene. Scandalized, the interpreter declared that he could not possibly tell his social superiors how to behave...