Word: irregularly
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...looked more closely, peering through the thick and irregular sides of what he now realized to be a Pernod bottle. "But it's only a black sock...
...returns to the chapel to say his rosary. Dinner is at 8, bedtime about 10. Sometimes he varies the schedule by rising around 2 a.m., working a couple of hours, then going back to his mahogany bed and sleeping later than usual. "He is a man of most irregular work habits," says his Secretary of State, Cardinal Tardini. "The Holy Father seems to have a guardian angel who wakes him up and tells him it's time to go to work...
...oldest bat and ball game in the world, court tennis originated in the monasteries of mediaeval France, and in America is confined to seven courts. It is played indoors on a wooden court similar in size to a lawn tennis court and the ball is played off the irregular, sloping walls which surround the court...
Among several case histories, Dr. Bontzolakis described a man of 57 who complained of dizziness, headaches and leg cramps. He had an enlarged heart with irregular beat, blood pressure of 250/130. Within six weeks, on reserpine, he improved (no headaches, less dizziness) and gave up abstractionism for expressionism. The doctor pushed the treatment: the heartbeat became regular, blood pressure dropped to 160/100, and the leg pain got better. The patient switched again-to primitivism. Dr. Bontzolakis was delighted. But two years later the man returned in worse shape than before, with blood pressure up again. What had happened...
...decades of reform and development into two brief years, thereby built a wall of resentment. He presided over the election that put A.D.'s Rómulo Gallegos, a noted novelist, into the presidency in 1948. Reports that A.D. planned to de-emphasize army influence by arming an irregular band of stalwarts helped turn the military against it. In 1948 a coup by the resentful military sent Betancourt into exile once more...