Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mature adult, finding himself in a situation and environment totally different from . . . normal life, becomes uncomfortable and therefore insecure. His personality changes, and he becomes a child, emotionally . . . [This] shows up in the patient's constant complaints about food, bills, routine, boredom, personnel-that is in the general patient irritability...
...planetary wind's general flow is toward the east, so when it captures a hurricane off the U.S. east coast, it generally pushes the spinner out over the Atlantic. But, as many a meteorologist has discovered to his grief, the wind is not constant in direction; it whips from side to side in waves like a shaken rope, carrying hurricanes with...
...fish from freezing. Dr Scholander had a theory that their blood "supercooled," remaining liquid because ice crystals never get a chance to start forming in it. Ordinary water behaves in the same way if it is carefully chilled without stirring. The blood of the fish of course, is in constant motion through their hearts and vessels, so Dr. Scholander reasoned that the fish must have some special system to keep it supercooled...
...fertilizer chaps who have been a constant trial to Archbishop Fisher is that gaitered fellow traveler, Hewlett Johnson, the "Red Dean" of Canterbury. Foreigners are constantly confusing the dean with the archbishop. In dealing with the Red Dean, Archbishop Fisher has mainly contented himself with humor, e.g., "Dare I say that when he is at home, I wish he were overseas? And still more profoundly, when he is overseas, I wish he were at home...
...arches. Yet there was a special kind of excitement at Evanston that could not have been created by organ music and pageantry: it was provided by the delegates themselves. Anyone who wanted to sense the distant scenes of Christianity's mission, the hymn of its work and the constant drama of its struggle for souls had only to meet the delegates...