Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Torres' frequent travels between Chicago and New York-and the use of the same dynamite in both places-have led some investigators to theorize that, instead of a large organization, the F.A.L.N. could be just one group of well-traveled terrorists. But a top New York City police official readily concedes: "I'm not optimistic that we've broken the organization's back. I'm always listening for that next explosion...
...inexpensively, if national health policies are carefully designed. The return in lowered fertility and healthier children and more equitably served families is clearly worth the effort. Malnourished mothers give birth to weak and unhealthy infants, and have problems nursing them. Such infants often die, and this leads to frequent pregnancies, which in turn diminish their occupational and economic status. This makes sons more desirable than daughters, and when only daughters are born, another pregnancy must ensue in order to try again...
...journalistic inflations of the story was the frequent and foolish assertion that Lance held the "second most important post in government." If this be so, does anyone believe that one American in 20 could name the previous occupant...
...Waugh was an Establishment of one. His genius, self-knowledge and frequent self-loathing set him apart. Roman Catholicism, to which he converted in 1930, provided an intellectual and ritual framework for his deeply pessimistic view of his institutions and attachments, indeed of all mankind. It was the classical view of lost Eden -of damnation without God's grace-that could lead Waugh at the height of his fame and good fortunes to ask, "Why am I not at ease? Why is it I smell all the time wherever I turn the reek of the Displaced Persons' Camp...
Perhaps the most striking, if ironic, confirmation of the importance and effectiveness of Amnesty International's human rights efforts came in the form of criticism of the organization by such frequent targets of Amnesty charges as the regimes in Eastern Europe, South Africa and Chile. The western governments in particular have been sensitive to Amnesty International's success in effecting a shift in international opinion, a shift that is gradually sapping the international political and economic support without which these notoriously repressive regimes could not long survive...