Word: oft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current uproar over general education, and the oft-heard demand that it be done away with as a hopeless anachronism, brings to mind the days less than three decades ago when the Gen Ed concept was considered a radical innovation in American education. Colleges all over the country enacted programs to insure that they would turn out Renaissance...
Part of it is oft-rehashed history-that moment late in 1940 when the outmanned Royal Air Force took on Hitler's Luftwaffe and changed the course of World War II. But Townsend, himself a hero of the battle, approaches the duel of eagles not as history but as a personal, crotchety reminiscence of the participants...
...kissing forays through county fairs belied his statehouse reputation as a master of patronage. His annual "flower fund" was required charity for all Powell appointees, and with 2,000 patronage jobs at his disposal during his five-year term as secretary of state, he was able to enforce his oft-stated fondness for doling out jobs and commanding loyalty. "I can smell the meat acookin'," Powell said whenever the subject of state jobs was raised. He also had a certain charm, summed up by a boyhood friend: "Paul was just a big old country boy-he could shake...
...word of Mr. Stowe's oft-stated simplistic solutions to the problems confronting us got around the university, turnouts for crew did indeed drop. The regrettable fact of Mr. Stowe's association with Columbia is not that it has been terminated, but that in the three years he was there he didn't learn a thing...
...Faculty spent the first hour and a quarter of their two-hour meeting discussing new procedures proposed by the docket committee for the conduct of Faculty meetings. The 29 proposed new rules-covering eight pages of single-space type-are supposed to simplify the Faculty's oft-labyrinthine procedure...