Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issued by the Labor Department, and a later preliminary state audit investigation, pinned the blame for the IBES's bad performance mostly on poor management. The findings read like a horror story in bland bureaucratic prose: employees confused about their responsibilities and shifted from job to job so frequently that they never learned their jobs; a near absence of planning; managers unaware of how many staffers they could hire; offices that were unclean and unsafe; chronic shortages of supplies; employees "indulging in frequent coffee breaks, extended lunch periods and early departures." Worst of all, the state study found...
Winston gagged over his mother's unconventionality. He choked over women's suffrage. After a rowdy demonstration outside Parliament, he espied a suffragette and shouted, "Drive that woman away!" although he knew very well who she was; she had been his dinner hostess on frequent occasions. But this was a mere ungallantry. Churchill and his colleagues in the governing Liberal Party were so enraged at the suffragettes that they embarked on a vindictive antifeminist campaign. An epic struggle ensued...
Since his youth, Kupka had been intensely interested in spiritualism; he was a frequent hiker on the astral plane...
...space and saw the planets rolling quietly. After that it was difficult to come back to the trivia of everyday life . . ." The connection between such experiences-or hallucinations-and the airy spaces of his paintings, filled with rainbow arches and planet-like balls, is obvious. (He also liked to frequent the Paris Observatory.) Kupka's belief in binding energy-a theosophical equivalent of Dante's "Love which moves the Sun and the other stars"-could not be contained in everyday objects. "Alas," he wrote, "nature is ever changing, rapid are its metamorphoses. The laws of physiology are beginning...
After an exchange of punts--a frequent occurrence in the course of the day--Harvard set up on its own 48-yard line and finally got down to business offensively, moving into scoring position on runs by fullback Neal Miller and halfbacks Tom Winn and Mark Taylor...