Word: oft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Balkanized G.O.P. of 1988, Bush had to get a large share of Reagan loyalists to win the nomination. And he had to reassure other voters still mesmerized by the Free Lunch illusion that he would not be presenting a large bill for the meal. Hence his early and oft-made pledge: "I am not going to raise your taxes -- period...
...minute speech fleshed out Jackson's oft-repeated assertion that the fight for minorities to be represented in government extends far beyond his own race...
...division, or at least make a serious run for the playoffs. Last year's bumper crop of rookies, the best the Red Sox have had since Jim Rice and Fred Lynn came up together in 1975, has already proved itself as no one-year fluke. And the oft-maligned older veterans aren't playing too badly either...
From local tour guides, from the owners of private stores, from everyone, it seemed, who spoke English, I heard the phrase "after the Cultural Revolution." The four most oft-repeated words of my stay in China became a metaphor for the vast changes the country is undergoing, for the experiences of suffering which bind the people together and for the limited extent to which I was capable of communicating with the Chinese people...
...taken his father's technique to a new dimension--one which inevitably changes the task altogether--by making his private musings public. His entries are almost without fail thoughtful and challenging meditations on the importance of spirituality, humility and the capacity of other people to awaken ourselves to such oft-forgotten traits. However, the somewhat more noble task of one man confronting a few blank pages in quiet reflection--alone with himself--is lost in the more didactic enterprise that comes with addressing an anonymous mass of readers...