Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carpet slippers, on any one of dozens of planes, Dulles, world citizen, would pull out a whodunit from his worn briefcase ("The detective must put his mind to work-my mind is relaxed as I read of his deductions"), or, as he often did, make plans in mid-Atlantic to stop off for a swim at Bermuda...
...families that had none. REA did its job, and well: now more than 95% have such service. The necessity for a federally subsidized REA system has obviously decreased with REA success, yet REA has continued to grow as a dug-in interest, representing assets, loans, etc., worth billions and often generating as much political as electrical power...
...Harlan County from the rest of the world breed into the Harlan-born a primitive defiance. In years past, Harlan moonshiners disdained to dodge revenuers; safe on impenetrable hilltops, they patted rifles and taunted federal agents with doggerel. Harlan justice was rudimentary; seldom was a killer hanged, but often one murder was avenged with another. And when the United Mine Workers set out 30 years ago to organize Harlan's prosperous coal mines, pitched battles between "Bloody Harlan's" miners and company police brought out the National Guard so often that guardsmen were on first-name terms with...
...policies of their own government. To help foster West German exports, the Federal Republic sponsors an insurance organization called Hermes, which offers exporters a guarantee against default by their customers. Thanks to Hermes (which has so far committed $600 million to underwriting Mideastern deals alone), West German businessmen can often offer credit to customers whom other Western businessmen must pass up as bad risks. Sometimes the Bonn government steps in directly to help. West Germany is about to give the Greek government $150 million in loans and credits, in a deal which commits Greece to spend two-thirds...
...third Identity is surprisingly pleasant. With one exception, its verse is successful in its relative simplicity, free from many of the pretensions which so often encumber undergraduate poetry. Its poems deal mainly with the brilliance of love and the relative uselessness of pedantry, a happy thought for the tag end of winter...