Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mayor was untouched; there were great evil forces at work in the world, and Paul Egan stood ready to analyze them with frequent, mysterious monologues. Sample: "Lenin was a noble man, like Gandhi. It was that sonofabitch Trotsky that messed things up. And that obscenity Stalin. I wonder where he came from. I'll tell you. I think J. P. Morgan put him in. The two big things that cause world tension are religion and the National Association of Manufacturers. I went down to the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach and I saw gutters made out of marble...
Defining the relative importance of Test scores and college records, Toepfer wrote, "It is the Test Score which decides who gets the nod," but the college record puts applicants in a ranked category "where the nods are few or frequent...
...trip cannot be counted as a success. But this is true probably more because three games were cancelled than because three games were lost. The team clearly needed practice, as frequent errors hurt pitching that was better than expected. The catching, in particular, needs work...
...Most frequent of acquired heart defects but so far relatively neglected by surgeons are the blockages resulting from coronary artery disease. This causes 500,000 U.S. deaths a year; it probably strikes new victims at least as often. Surgery aimed at correcting it is still the subject of the hottest debate in a widely debated field...
...fedayeen raids and frequent Israeli reprisals show that the United Nations Emergency Force must be maintained along the Gaza Strip until it is clear that sufficient stability has returned to the area. Egypt has rather arbitrarily reinstated her civil administration in Gaza to the understandable consternation of Israel. However, they seem to have conceded the move. Israel would protest and perhaps reopen hostilities if Egyptian armed forces entered Gaza. With the UNEF patrolling the strip, Hammarskjold should make it clear that there is no reason for the Egyptian military forces to return to the area...