Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paying homage to the assembled guests that included five prominent Harvard alumni, White said, "Each is different--the paths they followed were their own. But the common threads are clear: high aspirations, higher achievements, all the while governed by a constant and profound reverence for the human spirit...
...Black Prince, he was captured, then ransomed for ?16. The smallness of this sum is a favorite joke among Chaucerians, but it amounts to $3,840 in modern terms, by Gardner's computation, and probably was only part of the ransom paid. In a time of famine, plague, constant war, baronial feuding and serious peasant uprisings, the poet lived to be nearly 60 - which was old in the 14th century - and died peacefully...
...liberated by consciousness," Jaynes says, but the resulting loss of some god as a constant companion and adviser creates new dilemmas that modern man must face. "Without the gods to tell us what to do, problems of ethics and of identity" abound, Jaynes says. "Man hungers to get back the lost voices," and in modern society these primordial yearnings persist in churchgoing and the desire to serve...
...those who use seductive wiles to break them, Proteus and Silvia. There are the two masters and the two servants, each couple bound in friendship though capable of deceit. And then there's the dog Crab, who qualifies for both categories. The mutt is not only ungrateful for the constant companionship of Launce, he even sullies the courtship between Launce's master (Proteus) constant companionship of Launce, he even sullies the courtship between Launce's master (Proteus) and Julia, prompting a mortified reproach from the ever-patient Launce: "Did not I bid thee still mark...
...Supreme Court freed major league baseball from charges of illegal anti-competitive practices by granting the sport an exemption from the antitrust laws. Since that ruling, the legality of the perpetual reserve system has been the subject of constant court cases...