Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...panelists often disagreed. Not about, meaning determination not to do something, puzzled Jacques Barzun, one of the panel's most frequent dissenters. He replied: "I could not have understood its intention or force without your explanation." Writer John Bainbridge called it "mushmouth talk." But Columnist William Zinsser insisted that it has "strength and precision; accept it gladly...
During summer months, Broadway favorites flood the countryside where they are performed by members of the original cast, summer stock troupes or local players. Among this season's most frequent productions...
...Hong Kong last week, some 250 government officials, diplomats and businessmen gathered at the Crown Colony's Hilton Hotel to help us celebrate an event that is becoming more and more frequent for TIME: the opening of a new printing plant. For the past 15 years, the magazine's Asian editions have been printed in Tokyo, and distributed by air to readers in Hong Kong and throughout Southeast Asia. In some cases, that meant a time-consuming haul of more than 4,000 miles. With the new plant in full operation (at least 100,000 copies...
...past, the most frequent interracial alliances in volved ghetto blacks and suburban whites. Many of these were false to the extent that the wealthier whites were per forming acts of noblesse oblige that infuriated the white lower middle class and often the blacks themselves. Now the Philadelphia Antipoverty Action Committee has dis covered that black-white alliances are possible where racial neighborhoods adjoin and share common dangers and demands. Thus, black and white parents last year formed a community-action committee that preserved GET SET, a pre school program that both groups felt their children urgently needed...
...speed handicappers--ah, pigeons--who frequent the race tracks can often be heard echoing the familiar Joe E. Lewis refrain by the end of the meeting. "I follow the horses, and the horses I follow.. . follow other horses." )Damon Runyon made Jules Fink and his colleagues famous by calling them the "speed boys." It was a mis-moniker. They were actually brilliant pace handicappers...