Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France, where inconstancy is a constant, republics, dictatorships, monarchies and empires have gone with the wind. But whatever else goes, the Folies-Bergère remains. The Folies, a pleasure dome dedicated principally to the delights of the eye, is probably the world's most famed theater. Its fame rests securely on a basic theatrical principle, viz., if men like anything better than a shapely show girl in satins and sequins, it is a shapely show girl oujt of them. The Folies supplies both...
...Morgan and David Loyd play the parts of the soldiers and suitors with gusto making the most of every movement. Don Alfonso is properly sententious expounding 18th century morals, although his voice occasionaly gets lost. Nancy Tricky as the more adventurous and less constant of the betrothed is charming with a pleasant touch of worldliness. Her counterpart Jacqueline Bezinet, however, at times makes the ridiculous even more ridiculous. She is a follower of the mouth stretching school of acting and her contortions tend unduly to travesty the text...
CORPORATE MERGERS will find the going rougher. The Federal Trade Commission has slapped Foremost Dairies (39 dairy companies acquired since 1951) with a complaint charging "constant and systematic elimination of actual and potential competitors" with the result that Foremost boosted sales from $52 million in 1950 to $375 million in 1954. FTC Chairman John W. Gwynne has also asked Congress for new powers to require advance notice of all mergers in excess of $10 million, and stronger powers to dissolve mergers that have already taken place...
...isolation of the totalitarian leadership also results in "constant suspicion; hence, constant endeavors to eliminate causes of suspicion," he believes...
Ulysses ships up to 500 tons of ice topside; she is under constant threat of submarine wolf packs, is harried by Stukas, Condors and Heinkels snarling out of their Norwegian airfields. The crew is fed nothing but fear, lethal cold, and the slower death of the corned-beef sandwich. On this unhappy ship all is misery; she becomes a debating society, with the crew arguing their orders and the time and manner of their death. From stoker to captain, everyone is infected with what the British call "the Nelson touch," i.e., an inspired disregard for orders. There is heroism...