Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue grows increasingly critical. Besides the bombings and mob violence that have accompanied efforts at desegregation on buses and in schools, there have been repeated instances of economic pressures applied against Negroes seeking equality. Furthermore, there were distressingly frequent charges last fall that Negroes in some states were denied the right to vote...
Death is a frequent caller at Eastbourne, Britain's quietly expensive and very respectable Channel resort. Like an old friend of the family, sometimes without warning, but always observing the amenities, it drops in on those who have long expected a visit, for Eastbourne is a spa where wealthy Britons in the afternoon of life retire to await its end, lapped in the comfort of hoarded memories, expensive motorcars and the fellowship of their own kind. Noisy intruders are seldom permitted to disturb the genteel gossip and endless bridge games that help time pass for the oldsters in Eastbourne...
...rather than rival gangs. Juveniles engage in a wide variety of illegal activities here. Out of a total of 509 complaints received against juveniles last year by the Crime Prevention Bureau of the City Police Department, the following ten, with the number of complaints in parentheses, were the most frequent: larceny (53), destruction of property (46), stubbornness (42), trespassing (38), running away (36), using motor vehicle without authority (30), attempted larceny (26), disturbing the peace (24), assault and battery (19), and gaming with dice and cards...
...down Macbeth too physically. The porter's frightening over-eagerness to be a buffoon is also distressing, despite his amusing gestures. And white robes, worn by Macbeth and his consort, the morning after Duncan's murder, are a bit obvious. However, the production should not be criticized for its frequent innovation in punctuation of famous speeches--"There would have been time for such a word tomorrow. And tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in..." or "If it were done. When..."--which is usually imaginative in the most logical manner...
...with padding readily available in secondary sources. By concentrating the material into four weeks, the professor would be free to lecture as often or as seldom as he wanted without fear of having the undergraduate lose contact with the course. Lectures could be as long or as short, as frequent or as infrequent, as the lecturer wished, since both he and his student would have this single obligation. Moreover, by concentrating the teaching obligation at certain times, professors would not only be more likely to become really involved with their courses, but would be completely free for the rest...