Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Irish brogue, farm stories involving cows and milk buckets, and by now I know them so well that I've even started to dream his opening jokes in my dreams-when I've had a chance to sleep, that is. My only casualty from this constant traveling, though, was the winding stem on my wristwatch, which I broke by resetting the watch so often for changes in time zones...
Many black politicians, especially on the West Coast, distrust Brown as a minimalist whose constant refrain is "People must lower their expectations." Said California Assemblyman Willie Brown, who drives a sporty Porsche: "My expectations have not been lowered. I still want my Turbo Carrera"-a reference to a supercharged GT model with a $25,850 price tag. Nonetheless, Jerry drew cheers again when he pointed at Mervyn Dymally, California's black Lieutenant Governor, and shouted: "If I go to Washington, he goes to Sacramento. If I'm elected President, I will appoint the first black Governor...
...over 75,000 square miles in southern Venezuela and northern Brazil. Since then, Chagnon, now a Penn State professor, has spent four years among the Yãnomamõ, learning the language and chronicling a culture built around persistent aggression-browbeating, goading, ritual displays of ferocity, fighting and constant warfare. One village he visited conducted 25 wars in 19 months against neighboring villages, and a quarter of all adult Yãnomamõ males die in battle...
...assisted in arming a 30-year-old fledgling nation, which has been reared in a climate of nearly constant war, with some of the most devastating weapons devised...
...advocacy journalism sometimes hides other biases. For example, Burlingham says some people view the utility rates drive in Arkansas as "one step toward public ownership and control of the power industry." In the very next line, the writer interrupts his narrative--the first-person traumatic journalist angle is a constant problem with the magazine--to say, "(I do not mean to suggest, however, that their real purpose in promoting lifeline is to take over the utilities. The issue's popularity reflects the situations of the groups which have adopted it. Most are large organizations. Several have annual budgets...