Word: oft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like an oft-repeated tale, it was the same story all over again at the Indoor Athletic Building last night as Harvard dropped its fifteenth straight basketball game, this time to the University of Pennsylvania, by a score...
...high-riding Reds seemed to have no thought of making peace except on their own terms. A three-day radio barrage hammered out an anti-Chiang theme built around oft-repeated symbols of "reactionaries," "war criminals," and "running dogs of American imperialism." The big guns of Communist artillery then poured shells into Tientsin, North China's leading industrial and commercial city, where a quarter of a million men had been conscripted to build defense works...
Last week a handful of surviving relatives gathered, as they have regularly since 1908, to commemorate the anniversary. Sitting on upended fish boxes in the chill, barnlike steamer shed on Boston's India Wharf, they listened as Historian Edward Rowe Snow recounted the oft-told tale of the Portland's sinking...
...oft-expressed wish of William Butler Yeats will be fulfilled, now that the war is over. His body, buried these nine years in the south of France where he died, will be taken home (in an Eire destroyer) and reburied in a grave in Drumcliffe Cemetery, County Sligo...
...Deborah Kerr and of James Mason, who, at this tender stage of his career, seems never to have heard of sadism. The only possible reason for seeing it is the work of Robert Newton, an excellent actor who can put amazing variety and intensity of meaning into the oft-repeated dissyllable...