Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really optimistic," says William Schindler of the New Detroit Committee, "that we're in for a calm time." Mayor John Ballard of Akron has ordered more frequent garbage collections and improvement of ghetto property. Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen has opened "little city halls" in Negro districts...
...This is not necessary, judging from detailed laboratory work by Peebles and others. Men and women, they maintain, retain their immunity against tetanus for twelve or more years after those first four shots in childhood, and certainly should not need a booster more often than every ten years. More frequent revaccinations are not only unnecessary but potentially dangerous, say the doctors, since they may provoke allergic reactions against the toxoid itself...
...name," Vladimir Nabokov has observed. The point, originally made about Nikolai Gogol (pronounced Gaw-gol), applies to Nabokov himself. Over the years he has repeatedly complained about the damage inflicted on the Nabokov name in its passage through foreign ports of articulation. Nabokov, Nabokov, Nah-bo-kov, are frequent errors. Rare mutations, he reports, include Nahba-cocoa and Na-bob-kopf. The correct sound, says the man who made the name famous, is Nahboakoff. Slipping on the mask of a straight face for an instant, he continues: "Vladeemir, as in 'redeemer...
...Clarke improved his game quite a bit this spring," says coach Jack Barnaby, "and he's showed he's ready for a regular spot on the singles ladder. He's always had a fine shot, but his frequent errors used to cancel it out. This year, he cut the mistakes to a minimum, and as a result, matured greatly as a tennis player...
...record (a Red Sox game, a McCarthy rally). This processor for filling out the book does not work out nearly so badly as one would expect, though. The instant success that followed Kunen's first appearance in New York magazine did not spoil his cruelly observant eye. Nor does frequent borrowing from Mailer and Salinger corrupt a clean and engaging style...