Word: frequented
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...while the people of Kathmandu do make frequent, if not daily, visits to a shrine. Kathmandu is not a city of ascetics. Although the people are poor, the poverty is not nearly as bad as in neighboring India where one can find a million starving beggars in the streets of Bombay or Delhi. While the average Nepalese is lucky to make 150 to 200 rupees ($15-20) a month, there is no mass starvation because of recent good monsoon years and the extensive rice cultivation both in the Valley of Nepal and the lowlands. While the full brunt...
...example, Bok said, a frequent complaint is that classes are too large. "Clearly it is the method of teaching rather than the size of the class itself that is critical," he said...
...took advantage of the glittering social life that was in his reach. He lived in a series of cluttered apartments, shared usually by other bachelors. When not politicking back home, Jackson routinely spent Saturdays in his office, devoted evenings to dining with constituents who came to Washington or, more frequently, to poring over staff and technical reports, newspapers and magazines. On Sundays he would some times play softball with the Kennedy clan in Georgetown. Teammates describe him as an adequate second baseman but a rather weak hitter. Occasionally he would date; his most frequent such companion in the 1950s...
...style"). Marshfield rattles off alliterations as if he were on death row. He describes a local nursery "which piously kept its Puerto Rican peony-pluckers in a state of purposeful peonage." With nary a blush he writes of returning home to the "fusty forgiveness of my fanlighted foyer." His frequent dissections of sex and theology revolve around a central question: How many matrons can dance on the head of a pun? "More power to the peephole!" the Rev. Marshfield exults after describing a session of spying on his curate and his mistress of the moment...
DuBois, who returned last month to the United States after four years in Cario, Egypt, made frequent references to Africa as the black homeland. She called America "this alien land so different from the warm, fragrant, sun-drenched plains of Africa...