Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's one health problem is his weight. Through exercise and frequent dieting, he has managed to stay within twelve pounds of his average West Point weight of 172 Ibs. The sore elbow is responding satisfactorily to diathermy and rest, but has restricted his golfing, and the President has had to rely on calisthenics in his bedroom and office and occasional workouts in the White House gym. Such exercise for the sake of exercise bores Ike, who prefers competitive sports with an objective. "He ought to exercise." said Dr. Snyder. "The President is the type of man who enjoys...
Like Weegee, almost all serious photographers have believed at one time or another that "it's gotta be real"; like Weegee, they have a frequent urge to "change...
...stationed at wide intervals across the stormy North Atlantic are items of reassurance for those who know about them. Supported by the U.S. and 14 Atlantic countries, the weatherships supply the streams of data that are the raw material of modern weather analysis. Their sounding balloons, sent up at frequent intervals, report on conditions aloft. Their radio beacons are like lighthouses on the empty ocean. Sometimes the ships serve as lifesaving stations...
...minor Fantasia did not have this unity of conception. In its opening pages, as in the Menuetto of the E-flat Sonata (R. 282), Mr. Lewin played so slowly that one lost the momentum of individual figurations, not to speak of whole phrases. One might also criticize the frequent obtrusion upon the melodic line of reiterated chords and single notes which should serve only as subdued accompaniment...
Billy's condition kept getting worse, and his parents became more desperate. His frequent seizures threw him to the floor where he cut his lips, blacked his eyes and bruised his body. He became frightened and insecure-the more so as other children shunned...