Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...private detective accompanies her everywhere. She also has decidedly more fringe benefits, what with her furnished three-room suite in Buckingham Palace, a fleet of helicopters available to whisk her here and there, access to the world's most famous and fascinating people and invitations to a constant round of elite parties and balls. "In a way," the spokesman adds, "she is a sort of superdeb. She has a part-time...
Just as Dubček frequently found himself in the watchful company of the Soviet ambassador while in Turkey, so Anna was in the constant charge of the ambassador's wife. The wife of one Western ambassador recalls that when Anna paid her first official call, this uninvited "companion" sat, silent but attentive, through the visit. When the Western diplomat's wife repaid the call at the Czechoslovak embassy, she discovered the Soviet ambassador's wife sitting in a room within earshot of the main salon...
...gripped by an anxiety that is not caused by war, inflation or recession ?important as those issues are. Across the U.S., the universal fear of violent crime and vicious strangers?armed robbers, packs of muggers, addict burglars ready to trade a life for heroin?is a constant companion of the populace. It is the cold fear of dying at random in a brief spasm of senseless violence?for a few pennies, for nothing...
...order clamor has yet to do much for police morale?and is unlikely to. Criminologists, lawyers and thoughtful police officials are gradually recognizing that police problems go deeper than Supreme Court decisions that allegedly handcuff cops, and beyond the constant risk of sudden death in defense of unappreciative citizens. Nor is the real trouble the continuing emergence of new social abrasions?the mushrooming growth of hard-drug addiction, the bombings of urban buildings (four embassies in Washington were blasted last week), the crescendo of riots and demonstrations unmatched since the 1930s...
...Waiting for Godot, with exquisite precision, records the pain of existence. "The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops." So says Pozzo, the slavedriver, the pig, the spokesman for a decaying, overburdened, but strangely charming establishment. "There is no lack of void," says Estragon, cap-turing in his words the twentiethcentury's ironic understanding of time and space. And the agony, the anomic, the anxiety, the sheer numbing ignorance of existence is what impassions Vladimir's shriek to an unhearing universe...