Word: constant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarran-Walter Act, as enacted in 1952, is based on a simple principle of chemistry: that a constant solution is maintained through a constant proportion of component elements. Messrs. McCarran and Walter (along with a sizeable segment of Congress, which passed the bill over President Truman's veto) decided that in 1920 the national elements in the Melting Pot had reached the proper mixture, and decreed a quota system of immigration whereby the number of aliens admitted from each country was proportional to the national origins of the population according to the 1920 census...
Sometimes it came deep in the earth where Borinage miners scratch out coal from overworked shafts in constant expectation of cave-ins, poison gas, flooding, fire and explosion. More often it came on the grey, slag-heaped surface as miners coughed out their lives. Emile Zola saw the Borinage in the 1880s and poured its horror into his powerful classic, Germinal. A few aged miners still remember the emaciated, stubble-bearded Dutch preacher named Vincent Van Gogh, who lived in one of their hovels, held services and sketched their bowed bodies with fever-palsied hands...
...Without a Country. At issue was the fate of Japan's 800,000 "Korean residents.'' Taken to Japan in imperial times, mostly as forced labor, they remain an unabsorbed minority, and since World War II. a constant source of community friction. One in four is on relief, and 80% are classified as "without regular employment." Police assert that the incidence of crime-acts ranging from assault to theft-is five times as high among this group as among the rest of Japan's population. And owing in part at least to Rhee's insistence that...
...difficulty with ex-Radio Writer Corwin's play is that the drama is in the issues and only fitfully on the stage. While the theater thrives on speech, it tends to wither on a constant diet of speeches. But if The Rivalry is necessarily talky, it is rarely small-talky. And Playwright Corwin could scarcely have picked better vocal foils or more dramatic look-unlikes than Richard Boone's Lincoln and Martin Gabel's Douglas...
...vast, rambling stacks which run underneath the building, with an annex under Lamont, reached by a long echoing corridor. The stack area is air conditioned, with the air being washed, filtered, and run between electrically charged plates, to prevent disintegration of the books. The temperature is kept constant, and the walls are fireproof. In fact the library is so carefully constructed that the only possible danger is that at some time a water pipe might leak and inundate the stacks. To guard against this remote possibility, the library has a number of leak detectors, protruding from the walls, and troughs...