Word: oft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While reading the Man of the Half-Century nominations . . . I've noticed that no one has mentioned perhaps the most important man of this century if not of the next. I am referring, of course, to oft-forgotten Uncle...
...oft-heard notion that coaches spend "sleepless nights" when they have worries is quite pertinent this week in the case of the varsity soccer team; and Coach Druce Munro hopes his sleepless nights will bring about a Crimson triumph when the team takes on Army at noon today on the Business School Field...
Last week, as their short-lived civil war sputtered to a close (with some 260 dead, 800 wounded), Bolivians recalled the oft-told story of the Moscardos and told a moving father-&-son story of their own. It concerned ex-Army General Froilan Calleja, commander of the rebel forces, and his 25-year-old son, Froilan Calleja Jr., a lieutenant in the regular army...
...learned to fly he needed to pump one of the handful of U.S. officers-like Hap Arnold-who had. Thirty-three years and endless air power controversies later, Hap Arnold had fully vindicated Billy Mitchell's impassioned predictions, commanded enough air power to have wiped Japan oft...
Early arrivals found that April in Paris was still wonderful. The chestnuts were in bloom, and so was the night life in the tripper traps of old Montmartre. The landscape painters were busy by day on the Seine bridges, and Josephine Baker, the oft-warmed-over toast of gay Paree, was going through 32 costume changes a night at the Folies Bergeres. The grande saison de Paris would offer 150 spectacles, from colored lighting displays of the Versailles fountains to an amateur night for drink-mixers at the Hotel Continental. France was also pleased to announce that even the trains...