Word: constant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already sold Bishop Sheen to N.T.A.'s Minneapolis station). By next week Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee will be ready with a show: "Singing, dancing and lots of chitchat." And aging (59) Alex King, though his health is precarious, shows no signs of running down. "I'm under constant sedation for high blood pressure," says he. "Gandhi and St. Ignatius Loyola had high blood pressure too, and we all started with sinful lives. I'm preparing for sainthood...
This only reminded her friends of her constant complaints. "Portman was just a red herring," said one Hayes intimate. "The trouble was between Kim and Helen." Old Pro Hayes was sorely tried by the Method in Kim's acting. "I don't feel like being touched tonight," said Kim before one performance, and so a tender mother-and-daughter scene was played without a caress. Another time, Helen Hayes was quoted as saying, "I got two elbows down my throat from the girl...
...should stop thinking of mutual-assistance funds as stopgap measures, should put the mutual-security program on a permanent basis-it "is and will continue to be an essential tool" of foreign policy. "In our fascination with our own mistakes, and the constant use of foreign aid as a whipping boy, we may be gradually choking this vital feature of our national-security policy to death...
...Moving Day. Spain's five Protestant denominations (Baptists, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Pentecostals and Plymouth Brethren) are subjected to constant harassment. In the past five months the police have closed five of their churches on technicalities-two in Barcelona and one each in Malaga, Seville and Madrid. Three years ago the police closed the only Protestant theological seminary in Spain; candidates for the ministry must now be trained by local pastors...
...Department of Agriculture in Washington, Means published a study of price trends in the Depression to which he gave the title: "Industrial Prices and Their Relative Inflexibility." In it Means said that the classical Adam Smith laissez-faire free market, in which prices are set by a constant interplay of supply and demand, did not exist. In place of Smith's market-price theory, Means offered his administered-price theory. Said he: "An administered price is a price set by someone, usually a producer or a seller, and kept constant for a period of time and for a series...