Word: often
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the Cocktails. Big as Father Franks's Embassy is, it is slickly streamlined to maintain the most sensitive contact with the State Department at all levels-especially the ones just below the top, where decisions are so often born...
...often dreamed myself back into my bombers," mused the ex-general, "and went sailing through the skies." After three years, 57-year-old General Tanaka had turned his single pedicab into a fleet of ten. Still it was not good enough. "Bicycles and jinrikishas are too laborious," roared the veteran fighting man to his cowering assistants at their garage one day. "Automobiles are still a luxury. It is I who must find a middle ground...
...Often she has had the closing program spot, which might mean waiting until the end of an extra-inning night baseball game. Once, ready and made-up at 8 p.m., she went on the air sometime after midnight. "If the image was wobbly it wasn't because of bad transmission," she says. "It was just my make-up blurring." Another night a "deuce" (2,000-watt spotlight) exploded while she was singing a number called Lovers' Gold. Showered by shattered glass from the smoking, spluttering lamp, Bargy didn't miss a single tremulous note. Besides poise...
...four years, Blue Cross had been trying to get the Rhode Island Medical Society's approval (required by state law) for a nonprofit, surgical insurance plan. Time & again the doctors vetoed Blue Cross proposals, often on technical quibbles. But the society had approved a limited plan covering only surgical fees. Skimpy as it was, Blue Cross offered this to its subscribers...
...finds that before he can get on with his work, he must multiply numbers as long as his middle finger, divide them, add them, square them, extract their roots. Sometimes a process involving a complicated equation with many variables must be repeated thousands or hundreds of thousands of times. Often the scientist gives up in despair. Many important lines of research have bogged down in a morass of figures...