Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...training school. Known as a "hell camp" for salespeople and managers, the school requires students to sing a "sales crow" song -- so named because the singers are supposed to sound like cawing crows -- in a public place to break down their inhibitions. The curriculum includes memorizing rules of behavior, constant oral testing on classroom work, writing speeches and delivering them in stentorian tones, along with a 25-mile hike and other strenuous physical exercise...
Only the little things nag at me. The person on my floor freshman year that took six showers a day, for instance. I didn't see a need to berate him about his actions at the time, even though the constant steam was causing ceiling tiles to fall and toilet paper to become water-logged. I was able to understand that he somehow always needed...
Despite a University prohibition on riding bicycles in Harvard Yard and constant calls from the guards on duty, two roommates in Mather House say they hold timed bicycle races through the walled-in area...
...best performance of the evening is turned in by Jon Tolins as Angelo D'Ethe. As an incorporeal spirit, Tolins slides through the action all evening, providing more than a few scene-stealing bits and a constant, classy counterpoint to the bawdier action at center stage...
...Napoleonic wars tends "to downplay the more personal aspects of this story, such as Napoleon's own increasing lethargy and self-delusion." But the author insists that inspiring < leaders or brilliant generals can at best cause momentary glitches in the relentless "dynamic of world power," which entails constant change both within and between nations. "Those are not developments," Kennedy warns, "which can be controlled by any one state, or individual...