Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remainder of the squad was no match for Cornell, as they were literally blown away in the first half when the Big Red enjoyed the wind advantage, then failed to capitalize on the constant pressure they applied with the wind at their backs...
...Gogol who places an ad for the return of his lost nose. What Roth succeeds in portraying, though, with all the delicacy and poignancy of the Russian dramatist, is that Kepesh is in fact a figure from a Chekhov novel. Not a warped, disfigured monster but a man whose constant pursuit of love reveals the tragic-comic dimensions of our own lives...
...wife Estelle, 67, live in relative comfort on their $900-a-month income of pension plus Social Security, he no longer is eligible for benefits he had in his old job, such as housing and car allowances and health insurance. He sees rising property taxes as a constant menace to old people trying to cling to the comfort-and memories -of their homes. Goodwin pays $1,500 taxes a year on his house and half-acre lot, which he bought 17 years ago for $22,500. "The city is spending thousands of dollars on conservation lands because it doesn...
...presentation of the council's peace prize to Miss Lillian, 79. Past recipients: John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Earl Warren and Nelson Rockefeller. Why does Jimmy's mom rate such an award? Besides her efforts in India, Miss Lillian, explained Young, has lived a "constant struggle for peace amid the poverty, tension and differences in south Georgia." Well, shrugged his white-haired listener, it all came easy. Drawled Miss Lillian: "I was born loving everybody...
There are the obvious physical hardships: the basic problem of forcing the body to learn a whole new language of movement, the constant battle with fatigue, the endless and inevitable series of injuries. But what is perhaps more insidious are the psychological burdens. Since most careers end at forty or so, every dancer is in a race with time, and as Stevens points out, the working years are full of "quiet, savage, heartbreaking competition"--and jealousy. Most dancers are not soloists, and for this majority there are the added burdens of low pay (a first-year NYCB corps member earns...