Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Swarms in Bazaars. Strongman Daoud was aware that his strict Moslem people might be tempted to rash acts by their religious hostility to Communism, by the tales told by the constant stream of refugees from nearby Russian Turkistan, and by the age-old assumption among Afghans that anything to the north is barbaric. As arrival day approached, the bazaars swarmed with secret police, who questioned strangers and put suspicious persons under house arrest for the duration of the Russians' visit. Along the three-mile route from the airport into the capital, families were warned that any untoward incident might...
...head offen h'it-but h'it still don't play too good." When she plays, she puts the three-stringed instrument across her lap, then strums out the tune on the top string while the bottom two give off a thin, constant drone. For lonesome songs, she tunes the top string down a third to get a minor mode. Sample: Down in some lone valley, in a lonesome place, Where the wild birds do whistle and their notes do increase, Farewell, pretty Saro, I bid you adieu, But I'll dream of pretty Saro wherever...
...rural dean of Hammersmith, last month called for disestablishment. Was state protection of the church, he asked, "worth the high price that is paid for it? limitation of her spiritual freedom, denial of any choice in the appointment of her leaders, and insidious secularism which results from the constant attempt to impose upon the church the state's own lower standards of morals?" Prime Ministers of Britain presumably need not even be Christians, let alone Anglicans, since there are no formal religious qualifications for the post; in the last 40 years they have included "a Welsh Baptist, a Scottish Presbyterian...
...radically new model in its showrooms, it made France's biggest auto news in years. Nicknamed the "Goddess," it has a long, duckbilled front reminiscent of the 1953 Studebaker, a plastic roof and half a dozen mechanical improvements, e.g., hydropneumatic suspension to keep the car on a constant level. The four-cylinder, 75-h.p. engine does 25 miles to the gallon and can get the Goddess up to 87 m.p.h...
...from a member of the class of 1921: "If you start in the middle it's not so bad. Except now and then it is all unutterable rot." Another '21 contributed, "Most foolish book ever written." The book's appeal seems to have remained constant throughout the years, for a member of '55 felt impelled to add, "This book is the absolute worst. Be careful not to read...