Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this huge and hugely complicated bomber, Boeing did away with a frequent source of pilot's gripe-an overladen instrument panel. The pilot and copilot have before them only the instruments necessary for taking off, flying and landing. The crew of eleven includes a flight engineer who has a big instrument panel of his own, and whose job is to keep track of engine performance. Since long-range flights mean long, fatiguing hours in the air, the ship carries chairs cushioned with sponge rubber and bunks in which unoccupied crew members may rest. The cabin is sound-insulated...
...year-old Pole called Myra, who was reported to have lured soldiers into smiling range of her revolver. Another was identified as Audette Chraud, a Frenchwoman who potted Allied troops from her bedroom window. Villagers explained that she had been their leading collaborationist and a frequent entertainer of German officers. Both were taken to England, the Frenchwoman wounded...
...ropes was the fine Italian fist of his onetime pal, spry, bantamweight Arturo Toscanini, 77. The blow was the culmination of a friendship that has gone sour. Few maestros have held each other in such avowed mutual respect as did Toscanini and Stokowski in the '303. A frequent attendant at Toscanini's rehearsals, concerts and broadcasts, Stokowski publicly expressed his tremendous admiration for Toscanini. Toscanini, who seldom in his life has had a good word for a competitor who could possibly be considered a rival, recommended Stokowski to replace him when he decided to take a vacation from...
...Constitution," said the new Justice, "is an experiment, as all life is an experiment." Holmes was "like rum to the other judges." But those who feared he would express his broad theories in frequent dissents were disappointed. In the newly begun battle between organized labor and the corporations, Justice Holmes dissented from his colleagues only twice in seven years. In the next five years he delivered two stirring dissents upholding workingmen's right to strike and form picket lines...
Otherwise dead classroom periods were brightened by Bob Gotchling's pronunciation of Secoy "Erl boiners"--Jim Freeze's frequent lapses into dreamland (Sunglasses will improve his technique)-- Boston calling down the wrath of the class upon himself by interrupting Mr. MacNeil's little anecdote on a certain "accounting system...