Word: irregularly
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...However," conceded the broadcaster, "the useful work of the language classes is still hampered by some defects-such as irregular attendance and lack of industry on the part of the students. The fault is partly that of the teachers, who present the subject in a boring form...
...caught far off base at a friend's finca near Antigua, made it back to the capital tardily-and then only by leaving his car and skulking through ravines around an army roadblock. By dusk the army had forced him and the junta to agree to disband all irregular forces. Then the cadets and regular army soldiers marched the battered survivors of the anti-Communist Army of Liberation like P.W.s right through the capital's Sixth Avenue to a train that carried them back to their old headquarters near the Honduran border. That night official communiques saluted...
...Kept police (and a new, irregular force made up of soldiers from Castillo Armas' liberation army) so busy arresting suspected Communists that the jails overflowed with 3.500 of them...
...DIARY NORTH AND SOUTH (268 pp. abridged)-by William Howard Russell, edited by Fletcher Pratt-Harper ($4). "There entered, with a shambling, loose, irregular, almost unsteady gait, a tall, lank, lean man considerably over six feet in height, with stooping shoulders and long pendulous arms terminating in hands of extraordinary dimensions . . . He was dressed in an ill-fitting, wrinkled suit of black, which put one in mind of an undertaker's uniform at a funeral . . . His turned-down shirt collar disclosed a sinewy, muscular yellow neck; and above that . . . bristling and compact like a riff of mourning pins, rose...
Middle East Correspondent Keith Wheeler has had language tutors in Greece, Germany and Italy, but, he adds: "I have always, unfortunately, been forced to move on about the time we were to tackle irregular verbs. I am looking forward to having time for a real cram course." One of his favorite words in his new Arabic vocabulary is magnoon, which means "insane" and, he says, is the epithet usually applied to native automobilists...