Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the winter months, the Club uses a cabin on Mount Washington as a base for ice-climbing and skiing operations. And, at frequent intervals, the members dig out their maps and ferret out new heights to conquer...
Little mishaps and irreverent remarks continued, but grew less frequent as the festivities narrowed toward the ceremony itself. The crowd began to gather early the night before in favored places near Buckingham Palace and Parliament Square. The crowd was good-natured, a bit rowdy, ill-clad and ill-fed. And, more than in other times, avid for the show that would lift it, not by illusion but by legitimate right, into a symbolic reminder of its own worth. As they waited, chaff flew. When black smoke poured from the palace chimney, a wit said: "Blimey, now they've gone...
...principles, they saw eye to eye. The boss should be appointed by the President, subject to Senate confirmation. The administering body should have wide and flexible authority to procure goods and facilities, administer and allocate funds. It should work in close cooperation with the State Department. It should make frequent and complete reports to Congress. Appropriations should be. on an annual basis...
...Having been in the Army, and overseas, during our wartime rationing period, I didn't have to stand in line for scarce items, or figure out how many red points I'd need for a piece of meat, or frequent the black market. I got my "C" rations as regularly as could be expected, and figured that the few I missed was little enough to give up, since the people here were limited...
...Life." Charles Lamb was sent to Christ's Hospital, a London charity school. Thirty-five years later, he wrote of a headmaster: "He had two wigs. The one serene, smiling, freshly powdered, betokening a mild day. The other, an old discolored caxon, denoting frequent and bloody execution. Nothing was more common than to see him make a headlong entry into the schoolroom and with turbulent eye, singling out a lad, roar out, 'Od's my life, Sirrah, I have a great mind to whip you,'-then, with as sudden a retracting impulse, fling back into...