Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like a war veterans group," says current Society president Fitzsimmons. "When we played, we represented the last line of defense, and the scoreboard served as a constant and painful reminder of the number of times we had been made to look very bad," says Fitzsimmons, who set a Beanpot record with 48 saves in a 5-4 overtime loss to Boston College in 1965. "We talk about old battles...
...pattern is familiar, or ought to be, for it follows that of earlier American adventures in Iran, Greece, Cuba, and most disasterously in Vietnam. The forces of evil differed from country to country, but the American response remained constant. Whenever American vision of how a nation ought to function was challenged, the U.S. responded with generally anti-democratic, repressive attempts to alter popular movements seeking to influence the political life on their own lands...
...read it myself, and I very much approve of that letter. Those generals have already retired, but they are concerned and that means that the situation is indeed not tranquil. I have said this to a number of foreign friends: the nuclear arsenal of the Soviet Union and the constant development of their strategic weapons means that we can say that the Soviet Union is already on a par with the U.S. The Soviet military budget takes up around 20% of the gross national product.* What does one do with all these things? With no war going...
...million of the world's 700 million Roman Catholics, Latin America is the church's biggest base. It is also the church's biggest problem area. In many nations, the Roman Catholic Church is the only opposition force to survive state repression, and it is under constant attack. In the decade since CELAM last met, a Vatican expert estimates, at least 1,000 priests and bishops have suffered interrogation, imprisonment, torture or murder. Among those detained has been CELAM'S Brazilian president, Aloisio Cardinal Lorscheider...
...between large slices of jollity. The characters encountered at the Gold en Days, a retirement hotel, are spunky individualists eager to savor the last drops of life. True, there is a lady (Grace Carney) who stays glued to the TV set, but that gives her life the dimension of constant fantasy. True, there is someone who dies (offstage), a tie salesman (Robert Weil), but only after he achieves his desire to leave something behind by completing a bench in the craft shop...