Word: frequently
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...since the new law took effect, the state has recorded only eight, or 4.8 per 100,000 legal abortions. (The U.S. maternal-mortality rate is 27.4 per 100,000 births.) Abortion complications, which can include perforation of the uterus, hemorrhage and infection, are far less frequent in legal than in illegal procedures...
Sexual assaults on women last year were notoriously frequent. Three Radcliffe women were raped. Five out of the 11 major assaults reported to Harvard Police took place in the daytime. Cliffies started locking their doors...
Word of the summary execution quickly spread throughout Yemen. Harazi's family refused to bury him unless action were taken. President Abdul Rahman Iryani, a frequent rival of General Amri, reportedly wanted to try the general for murder. So did many members of Yemen's first elected legislature, the 159-member Shoura Council, which was installed last April. "Killing people like animals cannot be tolerated," declared Councillor Ali Saif Kholi. Many of the legislators were still angered over Amri's strong-armed attempt to dissolve the legislature only the week before...
...Knapp Commission-had turned up more than a few "bad apples," as the police like to describe their erring members. Elite units like the narcotics squad were reputed to be filled with men who were pushing drugs instead of trying to stop their spread. It had become frequent practice for a patrolman to turn in part of the narcotics he had picked up in a raid and keep the other part to be sold. In one instance a patrolman arrested a pusher on the street, while a detective seized the opportunity to burglarize the pusher's home. In another...
...Alren makes several attempts to lure her back, each stymied by Lisa's obstinacy or the pseudopsychological prattering of her sister Nan (Elizabeth Ashley), who has, it seems, a good deal more than an amateur analyst's interest in her brother-in-law. She makes frequent trips to his beachside bachelor lair. At one point she practically unravels her bathing suit in an attempt to interest him. He remains impassive throughout...