Word: occasionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The occasion: a parade in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, honoring the 100th birthday of Adolf Hitler last week. The host: Richard Girnt Butler, 71, leader of the white-supremacist group Aryan Nations. The invited guests: young skinhead toughs whom Butler wants to recruit to his bigoted cause. A 21-year...
Wright, to be sure, would have none of that. On occasion during the week he looked haggard, and he told reporters wryly, "I believe I have had easier times." But he made himself conspicuous, bustling about the halls of Congress and on at least two occasions visiting the White House...
The U.S. Government itself has on occasion declined to extradite some suspected terrorists. In 1981 it refused to hand over Desmond Mackin, an I.R.A. member, to Britain, and it is now reviewing the case of I.R.A. fighter Joseph Doherty, an escapee from a Belfast prison.
"Somehow, we always rise to the occasion when we come here," Mahoney said.
"We really rose to the occasion on defense," Greenberg said. "They drove down to our goal line a few times, but we came together and held them off each time."