Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seek outlets." That was no surprise to some cynical Japanese, who say that novice Zen priests often slip anchor at night after the temple supervisor goes home. Many steer straight for the local brothel, where the madam courteously bundles them inside without obtrusive haggling at the door. Others hold frequent cookouts near the temple, wolfing down undercover banquets to fatten a temple diet of soybean soup and boiled radishes...
...well as practicing good journalism. For Newspaperman Lindstrom, no audience was too small or too large-a single Times reporter or the American Society of Newspaper Editors, of which Lindstrom was long an officer. Before such listeners and before lecture audiences the country over, he took clear and frequent aim at the challenges and weaknesses of his own profession...
Despite the publicity given its two leading scorers, R.P.I. scarcely ranks among the top eight teams. Until the return of two players at mid-season, the Engineers had a squad of ten men, skating two lines, three defensemen and a goalie. Partly because of the frequent work and partly because of a patsy schedule, forwards Paul Midghall and Ray Belasky led the NCAA scoring race with 61 and 54 points, respectively, in games through...
...live in the world of creation--to get in it and stay in it--to frequent it and to haunt it."--Henry James...
...Russian students who escape the frequent opportunities to flunk, the ten-year school can be an efficient factory of learning. Children start when they are seven, go through only four years of elementary school. The next year-their fifth-they begin a stiff, six-day-a-week secondary school program. By the time a Russian child reaches the eighth year, he is assumed to have a thorough knowledge of grammar-a subject most U.S colleges find it necessary to pound into freshmen. By graduation, he has studied one foreign language for six years, has been exposed to 4½ years...