Word: oft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soccer team will probably ride as high as oft-injured star forward Derek Mills and its untested freshman goalies can play. But once again, Coach Mike Getman's team should be nationally-ranked...
...pooh such fears. "Collectively and individually, talk- show hosts have the fattest egos you'd ever want to bump heads against," says Mark Williams. "So the likelihood of them agreeing on a national agenda is minimal." If they do, however, it might be time for listeners to follow an oft-repeated bit of talk-show advice: Turn your radio down...
Others shouted "Down with bureaucracy, down with corruption," oft-repeated phrases during the past 11 days of demonstrations and class boycotts that have shaken the Communist government...
Philby's is a story oft told -- once, self-servingly, by himself (My Silent War, 1968). It seems likely that Knightley's will stand as the definitive account, despite its pedestrian style: Knightley, a former special correspondent for London's Sunday Times, was the only Western journalist to interview Philby at length during his last years of semiretirement in Moscow...
...Flaubert's oft-quoted assertion that "Madame Bovary, c'est moi," would lead one to believe that--if Emma Bovary is indeed a self-referential creation--the author himself must have been a character of depth and contradiction...