Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...room is sunny, the decor simple yet elegant; long curtains, gold carpet, white couch, two green easy chairs that are prime candidates for recovering. His personal secretary, Susan Clough, sits in an office adjacent to the study. When she is not typing letters or penciling in the almost constant changes in Carter's daily schedule, she is feeding the President's Panasonic phonograph with classical LPs. The background music plays all day. Clough types the musical program on a tidy series of yellow three-by-five cards and places them on the President's desk so that...
...President who performs his duty faithfully ... can have any leisure," wrote James K. Polk in 1848. "If he entrusts the details ... to subordinates, constant errors will occur. I prefer to supervise the whole operation of the Government myself...
...still revolves around the President. He sits in his study-with pastorals by American impressionist painters on his wall, his bookshelves laden with biographies of Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Truman, Johnson, Kennedy-and seems very much alone. But all things converge upon him, and there is a constant flow of people and ideas. Richard Nixon's lieutenants tried to protect Nixon from such intrusions. Within reason, Carter seems almost to welcome them. The White House operation is remarkably relaxed. Hamilton Jordan regularly dresses as if he were about to spend the afternoon quail hunting: sports shirt open...
...event which once attracted only a few dozen harriers, in recent years the Boston Athletic Association (BAA) classic has rapidly grown in size despite the constant tightening of qualifying requirements. Now in order to qualify, a male under 40 must run a marathon in under three hourse; all others must complete the distance in under 3:30. But the lure of this famous race is such that 3016 people from all over the world have met those standards, including a record 141 women...
When William O. Douglas reluctantly retired from the U.S. Supreme Court 17 months ago at the age of 77, he was partly paralyzed from a stroke, in almost constant pain and seemingly unable to continue the mental exertion required on the high bench. Friends feared that the Justice, deprived of official duties, might soon die. Instead, Douglas is still working away in his court chambers, and the old conservationist has promised friends that he will make his first public reappearance next month at the official dedication of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park as a memorial...