Word: frequently
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They split the first four games and things were getting hot as the final game began. The temperamental Niederhoffer, who will not tolerate the slightest interference with his stroke, has always been a gallery villain because of his frequent let calls. The indignant Howe, just as relentless on lets, tends to give less than sufficient room for his opponent to manipulate as a match tightens...
...hermit. A dapper and courteous little man, he had a coterie of fishing and hunting companions in his home town, as well as numerous publishing friends in New York. He was always given a top table when he dropped in at Toots Shor's or "21" on his frequent visits to New York, graciously gave his autograph when asked, and readily discussed writing with perfect strangers -if they were not newsmen. In 1957 and 1958, he was the writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia, and in 1962 lectured on writing at West Point. Moreover, perhaps no major...
...forged Choate in his image; strongly Episcopal in his insistence on compulsory chapel, staunchly ethical in his devotion to the honor system, fresh and human in his habit of occasionally dismissing classes for a hike in the mountains. John F. Kennedy was one of the graduates who remembered his frequent exhortation: "Ask not what your school can do for you, but what you can do for your school...
...lengthening of the Congressional term of office will provoke reverberations of the old Jeffersonian belief that frequent elections are the best guarantee against tyranny. But in an age of mass communications and sophisticated means of sampling public opinion, annual or biennial elections are no longer necessary to determine the public will. The gentleman legislators of Jefferson's day could campaign at leisure between brief sessions; today's Congressmen have to steal time from heavy schedules in the capital to campaign strenuously in their districts...
...came to my attention recently when my son visited home for the weekend that it has now become frequent practice in the Houses at Harvard for undergraduates to have pets in their rooms. My son mentioned cats as being the most common, but it seems that there are also numerous mice, rats, gerbilles (which are an outlandish species of Mongolian desert rat), and various amphibians as well as the permitted fish...