Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beyond the battle lines, under the hard official crust, the Reich was heaving. From Berlin came persistent stories of peace riots. There were frequent killings in the streets. Travelers to Bern and Stockholm now began to report that Germans might revolt. The Russian radio broadcast easy lessons in disarming police patrols. Said Moscow: "A hefty stick will get you a revolver; to get a rifle and a few grenades with the help of a pistol is no work of art." Himmler announced appointment of a new police chief for Berlin...
...open controversies . . . have been so frequent and chronic as to point beyond the particular individuals ... to administrative failures on the part of the President himself. It will generally be found that he has either failed to appoint the right man to a key position; or failed to delegate sufficient power for the task ostensibly assigned; or failed to make clear to each official from the beginning precisely where his own power and responsibility began and ended; or failed to prevent duplication and conflict of powers; or failed to support an official fully . . .; or failed to discipline or remove an official...
...Twig Is Bent. A Japanese baby's toilet training begins at four months, and is likely to be the most painful experience of his life. He is held out over the balcony or road at frequent intervals. For every lapse, he is ferociously punished-by his mother's scoldings (in a tone of horror and disgust), by shaking, sometimes by beating. Training is made more difficult by the fact that Japanese babies are habitually overfed (which Gorer thinks may account for Japanese grownups' lack of interest in food and ability to get along on small rations). Nonetheless...
...Japanese parents' sensitiveness to ridicule of an ill-behaved child by outsiders). The Japanese, says Gorer, do not stick together well under attack; they readily turn against a fellow countryman placed in a ridiculous position by outsiders-a fact which, he thinks, accounts for hara-kiri and the frequent changes in Japanese military leadership...
...weak and threadbare plot revolves around Dr. Wassell's love for an American nurse played by Laraine Day. During one of the frequent flashbacks, one learns that he has run out on the beautiful nurse just as he was bout to propose to her, because of a telegram telling him that another researcher has already found the answer to his quest. It is not until the end of the movie, when Dr. Cooper, or Wassell, has led a band of wounded men through air raids, battles and stormy seas to safety in Australia, that he is reunited with his bride...