Word: irregularly
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...blazing sun popped over the rim of the cloud world. When the coastal rally point was reached, the Forts were arranged in an irregular flying box formation, not unlike the classic battle phalanx. The highest planes were cascading mile-long vapor trails. Over the Channel, the clouds disappeared. Not a boat rippled the Channel's surface. Far out on either side, Spitfires raced along, occasionally tipping their wings to warn the eager fortress gunners not to fire on them...
...that all its murder and mystery seem irrelevant. During the Blitz the village had known a finer hour. In the silence before raids the guards had met, waited and talked. The bombs jarred loose ancient reserves, buried notions of guilt, stupidities and intolerances that lost their power in the irregular hum of the bombers and the distant crump of gunfire. During the broken, hesitant confidences of night "from time to time, a sudden low flash of faintly green light would appear on the eastern horizon. . . . The searchlight beams moved and crossed and then abruptly, on some unseen order, vanished instantaneously...
...easy for the soldiers of the First Army to turn their eyes away from the valley. In the maturity of Tunisia's spring it was one vast bouquet. There were great fields of yellow and blue, purple and orange, violet and red, laid out in symmetrical squares and irregular pat terns. There were fields in which all these colors and more were mixed in dazzling profusion. Everywhere there were poppies, ripe and crimson...
...from a truck going 30 miles an hour around an elliptical track while birds sail past at every angle. In the fourth week, having learned to service machine guns and repair stoppages, they go on to ground machine-gun practice, firing .30s and .50s at targets carried over an irregular, baffling course by mechanically controlled jeeps...
...Hanford yesterday sounded a warning to men in the College in a two-page statement aimed at those who have been cutting classes excessively. No new rulings were made in the statement, but it was announced that instructors would henceforth regard more seriously any neglect of work exemplified by irregular attendance...