Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over recovering the survivors had passed, officials commented sadly that it would take some time to reach the ten bodies in the farthest section. The families of the trapped miners had wandered back to their homes at Hominy Falls (pop. 400) and neighboring hamlets, and began to make less frequent trips to the site. Sobbed Foreman Frank Davis, one of those rescued: "No chance, no chance." Still, it is a mining tradition to keep working until bodies are recovered, so pumping operations continued round the clock as boreholes were drilled 250 feet down to the shaft...
...equipment": perfect pitch, near-total recall, ability to read scores at sight, digital dexterity, and a catholic if necessarily incomplete cerebral storehouse of music from the 17th century to the present. At Harvard he has been chiefly occupied as classical music guru at WHRB, in addition to somewhat less frequent exposure as pianist and composer...
From the other end, most of the interviewers who work for IGS enjoy the interesting work and the casual set-up. The workers get to choose their own hours, have frequent changes of jobs, and can work at their own pace. Joyce Peters '68, and IGS employee, says she thinks the organization is run very well, and that the management is very friendly. "The way it's set up is optimum for the way I want to work," she said...
...registration was somewhat arbitrary and misconceived, such as in the third movement of the Sonata in A, where he played the basso continuo left hand on the more loudly voiced manual, and the more important right hand line (in canon with the violin) on the softer one. His frequent use of the lute and leather stops became annoying, largely because of the basic ugliness of these stops on this particular harpsichord, as well as the instrument's generally unpleasant metallic tone...
...caught in the eternally adolescent marshmallow bogs of homosexual passion. "Duncan Grant is the full moon of heaven," he wrote to Maynard Keynes, who was one of his earliest friends and confidants. In fact, Keynes was something more. Holroyd discloses that like Strachey, Keynes was a homosexual and a frequent rival for the affections of winsome young men; it was a proclivity that did not affect Keynes's later standing as one of the world's great economists...