Word: constant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plebiscite be held on commonwealth-statehood-independence status, after opposing that additional plebiscite for seven years, I have changed my mind as to the fact that statehood is economically a complete reality for Puerto Rico. My acceptance of an additional plebiscite now is based on the following fact: the constant debate on status, which is unreal to most Puerto Ricans but which may seem real to persons outside of Puerto Rico, is approaching a point where it is beginning to do harm to our economic development program. The debate is spurious and it should be ended. Therefore, I have stated...
...problems, the most pressing was finding a successor to McElroy as Defense Secretary-or persuading him to stay on. Last week McElroy had two talks with the President and a constant stream of Pentagon interviews about prospective recruits for Defense. Administration leaders grimly watched him hunt hardest for a successor rather than a new deputy. A deputy could be picked from among the seasoned hands, e.g., Assistant Defense Secretary (Comptroller) Wilfred McNeil, or the Air Force's able Secretary James Douglas, but the President might well want to reach outside the Pentagon to fill the top job. Top prospects...
...drivers are not necessarily beginners. With only 850 examiners to deal with the flood of applications for licenses (last year a record 1,345,832 applied), there is a constant backlog of a quarter-million unlicensed drivers. The L-plate army is growing. In less than two years nearly half the 2,000,000 Britons who took driver's tests flunked them, many for the second and third time. All Britain cheered last month when 39-year-old Derek Brown passed his test: he had been driving with L plates for 22 years and failed twelve previous exams...
...Lamont by students from other schools has been a constant source of irritation to the library staff...
...Army library in Shannon Hall, the Colonel hopes that the endowment funds will permit the collection to be constantly renewed with up-to-date books, particularly on problems of national security. At present, the library is small, but comprehensive. Its utility, however, is strongly dependent upon constant additions which can only come through a special endowment...