Word: constantly
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Less than a year after she entered the world, however, a disease--"they never quite figured out what it was" --injured Helen Keller for life. The story of the little girl from Alabama is one so familiar to most Americans that it does not bear repeating. With the constant aid and attention of Anne Sullivan Macy, the girl who could not see, hear or speak became more than a functioning member of society. When Helen Keller died in 1968 at the age of 87, she was eulogized as a force unto herself, a symbol of womanhood, of struggle, of America...
People do read newspapers, listen to the radio, watch television and go to the movies, where they are also barraged with propaganda.* But with a lifetime of constant practice, Soviet citizens develop a mental filter that allows them to block out the ideological exhortations and concentrate instead on entertainment or just-the-facts news?to the extent that facts are printed...
...like Brezhnev, attended the vocational colleges that were characteristic of the 1920s and 1930s. Since the younger men began their careers around the time of Stalin's death in 1953, they are likely to be less fearful and more self-assertive than their predecessors, whose lives were under constant threat from the paranoid dictator. Nearly all the newcomers will have had more exposure to the West...
...adorn buildings before national holidays, line the factory's central avenue. The plant runs on two shifts from 7:40 in the morning until midnight, but the assembly line workers, whose average age is about 30, seem relaxed. At times they even stand around joking. Despite the ever constant exhortations to increase productivity, the Soviets have an easygoing attitude. Minsk employees, for example, are not required to dress in work uniforms on the shop floor...
...call comes in to the central ambulance station at 10 Koptelsky Lane. One of 34 telephone operators notes on a lavender slip of paper the time, name, address and problem-chest pains and dizziness. The slip is relayed to a second room of dispatchers who stay in constant touch with the 36 ambulance substations in the city. Most substations serve a radius of two to three miles, but there are specialty brigades in such disciplines as cardiology that cover the city at large...