Word: oft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that, he is not an economist and not a prominent businessman; he is not even listed in Who's Who. When President Truman asked him last fall to head the Office of Price Stabilization, he was just the mayor of Toledo, an unpretentious lawyer and oft-defeated Democratic politician. But there he was last week, perched precariously on one of the hottest seats in town, like a beach ball on a trained seal's nose...
...Francisco, the oft-beaten University of California basketball team over Long Island University, in an upset, 69-67, for L.I.U.'s first defeat of the season...
...army of half-a-million or so troops on the island of Formosa. That his presence there is a threat to peace not to be overlooked in a single-minded concentration on our problems in Korea is, I think, very clearly shown to us if we accept this oft-repeated assumption: namely, that Chiang's single hope of staging a return to power in China lies in a third world war. His weakness could succeed only with the whole-hearted and costly backing of all the free nations of the world, involved in a world-wide conflagration. If so, Chiang...
...troops had met crushing defeat and perhaps faced annihilation, the disaster and its implications became the subject of endless shocked conversations. Some of them were almost monosyllabic: men meeting on the street sometimes simply stared at each other and then voiced the week's most oft-repeated phrase-"It looks bad." This silence marked many men who had fought in World War II. Said a Purple Heart veteran in Des Moines: "I quit turning on my radio-I don't want to hear the news." Through all the talk there were overtones not of fear but of futility...
...South shivered in some of the lowest November temperatures ever recorded. Snow fell in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia: the thermometer went down to 3 in Atlanta, 19 in Baltimore, 17 in Richmond, i below in Nashville, 17 in Charleston, 2 below in Asheville, N.C. Florida's oft-bedeviled 'citrus growers toiled with smudge pots in a battle to save their perishable crops...