Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leave of Absence. In time, Salem also became Nasser's propaganda minister. The dancing major insisted on calling his own tune, and as a result, he was in fairly constant trouble with his boss. Once on a diplomatic visit to Iraq, Salem impulsively waved aside all Egyptian objections to a pact between Iraq and its neighbors, Syria and Jordan. Egypt's closest ally, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, promptly raised a howl of protest, and Nasser hastily sent Salem off on a "leave of absence." He flew into a fit of temperament that only his older brother, Wing...
...Eugen Onegin to world premieres of two new operas: Lukas Foss's Griffelkin and Stanley Hollingsworth's La Grande Breteche. Britain's Margot Fonteyn will dance in the ballet, The Sleeping Beauty. Ex-Ambassador Chester Bowles will give an hour-long report on India, and The Constant Husband, starring Rex Harrison and Margaret Leighton, will be the first full-length movie to be presented on TV before being released to movie theaters...
...Because of the intricacies of cataloguing, filing, labeling and binding even a free book costs Harvard about $5.75. New additions, new editions, new language uses mean constant housekeeping, and "there are people," says Metcalf, "who will spend a whole day cataloguing one book, if we don't stop them." Keeping the stacks in order is a career in itself: should some one replace a book on the wrong shelf, it may be lost for years...
From this assessment came the postcard polls, the dogged rectitude, the organizational reforms, the constant salesmanship-and, most important, the elections of Bob Wagner as mayor and Averell Harriman as governor...
...Constant employment and well-paid labor produce, in a country like ours, general prosperity, content and cheerfulness...