Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...francs ($171) and showing up every Thursday in the Académie chamber beneath the great dome of the Institut de France, there to pursue in quiet deliberation tasks ordained by Richelieu 320 years ago. Chief of these tasks is that of "keeping the French language elegant" by constant revision of an official dictionary. It is slow work. The Immortals, though their average age is 73, are in no hurry. The last revised edition of their dictionary was finished in 1932, and they are only up to the B for braise in the new version. Naturally, one must not rush...
Group III was the most constant through the three classes. '58 again led with a 24 percent figure, but was closely followed by '56, with 23.9. Again '57 trailed, with 22 percent...
...Black Book. The body business, however, is one of the few in the U.S. today that are not booming. Though the U.S. birth rate has been fairly constant since 1900, the death rate has been cut in half. In 1888 an average undertaker could expect to handle almost 100 funerals in twelve months; nowadays, he is lucky to beat 60. Few funeral directors today are so unseemly as to chase an ambulance themselves, but most of them have "personal contacts" in hospitals...
Dealer's Choice touches also on some historical gems. Poker has survived despite almost constant tinkering with the rules. It was struck a staggering blow in the last century when a group of losers in Toledo devised "Jack-Pots," which called for an ante before the deal, and jacks or better to open. A Southern gentleman named John Blackbridge fought back against this Northern plot to ruin the game. In 1879 he wrote: "[It is] as if one should be obliged every few minutes to stop playing poker and waste some chips purchasing tickets in a turkey raffle...
...they were able to seize the records of some 50 opposition organizations and groups, some of which are proCommunist. For all the police fanfare, no big Communist plot to overthrow the government was revealed. Some of the evidence did show, however, that many nonwhites, deprived of moderate leadership by constant government harassment and restrictive laws, were turning more and more to extremism. At the Indian Congress headquarters in the Transvaal, a huge portrait of Red China's Mao Tse-tung greeted the police...