Word: frequented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lhota, who is coordinating the project this year, writes Wakidi on behalf of the group every two months; more frequent letters would cause administrative problems, the agency says. Wakidi has written several times. The six-year-old dictates to an uncle who can write, and local workers translate correspondence...
...training a cadet undergoes in Beast, some say, helps them cope with the vast amount of memorization that West Point classes require. If there is a frequent complaint, it is that classes do not allow one to get at the deeper concepts, that a school which aims at training leaders tells those leaders what the right answers...
...playing with narcotics, so it became acceptable to experiment with heroin." Most of the experimenters snort the drug or heat it and inhale the vapor, in the mistaken belief that they will not run the same risk of addiction as they would if they injected heroin. According to experts, frequent consumption in any form may lead to addiction. Still, says a $30,000-a-year clothes designer in New York: "You can't get hooked on it if you do it just once in a while. I used to spend $100 a week on coke; the high from heroin...
...considerably enriched the world's supply of a seriously depleted commodity, oral history. Tales passed on through the centuries by word of mouth tell much more than their plots. In their diversity, they suggest the variety of dreams, the possible mutations of consciousness and climates. Their frequent similarities point teasingly in the opposite direction, toward some Ur tale that generated all the others, a narrative vast and potent enough to enclose the world. Writes Calvino: "Taken all together, they offer, in their oft-repeated and constantly varying examinations of human vicissitudes, a general explanation of life preserved...
...school will also begin sponsoring frequent "wine and cheese" social gatherings for prominent alumni, Smith said, explaining the affairs, to which Kennedy School students will be invited, will give individual students "face-to-face contact" with the types of prospective employers "they must get to know...