Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...core poverty areas, forcing municipal governments to look at a poor neighborhood's problems in their totality. Recognizing that new housing will do little good if everything else in a neighborhood yells poverty, the bill would also provide for the upgrading of schools and such amenities as more frequent garbage collection. Though the Senate cut $125 million from Johnson's request, it still provided $300 million more (for a total of $537 million) than the House, where a revived rural Republican-Southern Democratic coalition is the main roadblock to greater aid for the cities...
...Joel Fort, a San Francisco psychiatrist and frequent marijuana defender, stated that the drug causes no basic personality change, does not lead to sexual excess, and does not lead to progression to other drugs. Dr. Nicholas Malle-son, member of Britain's advisory commission on drug dependence and currently a visiting professor at M.I.T., agreed and added that it is not even psychologically addictive, "unless you would call my desire to go home after a day's work to have a gin and talk to my wife a psychologically dependent habit...
...have visited the poorest slums of the republic and recommend the same visit to the people who examine the population problem above all from the moral point of view. What can we say of the frequent incest; of the primitive sexual experiences; of the miserable treatment of children; of the terrible proliferation of prostitution of children of both sexes; of frequent abortion; of almost animal union because of alcohol ic excesses...
...message to 300,000 women. In some hospitals, the approach was soft sell, with tasteful leaflets, individual talks and optional group discussions. In Ankara and Trivandrum, the birth controllers took advantage of the fact that they had a captive audience: over loudspeakers, interspersed between news and music, were frequent plugs for family planning and playlets demonstrating its benefits. Worldwide, one woman out of three accepted birth-control advice and supplies (free or at nominal cost), including pills and intrauterine devices. Among these 101,725 women, the council figures, 40,400 pregnancies would normally have occurred within a year. Actually there...
...seldom out of their owner's sight. At work in New York, he lovingly lines them up on window ledges in his twelfth-floor office overlooking Park Avenue; at night, he takes a couple of them back to his East Side apartment for bedtime reading. For his frequent trips to Europe, he picks up four or five and carries them along on the plane. And on weekends, he lugs several to his weathered, two-bedroom cottage in New England, where he pores over their dog-eared contents hour after hour...