Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the Regional Scholarship Program, alumni often saw their donations go towards scholarships for students far from their own part of the country, and were sometimes hesitant to make donations...
...could be told at once. While it was high in space, the operators on its tracking stations gaily used it as a radio relay, e.g., England talked to Hawaii on the other side of the earth, the waves climbing up to the Pioneer and down again. This dramatized the often discussed possibility of using satellites as relay points for the earth's communications...
...Abandon prognostications on the conclave," exhorted Osservatore Romano. But in the city that once saw Popes chosen in great mass meetings of people and clergy, whose politicians often used strong-arm tactics to influence papal elections (as when Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II imprisoned cardinals to keep them from voting against his candidate), such exhortations were shouting against the wind...
...tradition-bellowing, belligerent, brilliant. He joined the empire in 1927, became editor of the money-making monthly Good Housekeeping in 1938. Says a freelancer who has felt his whip: "Mayes ran that magazine like the overseer of a chain gang." He did everything from assigning articles to writing heads, often refashioned passages of fiction without bothering to tell the author. His editorial recipe served the housewife a hasty pudding of bland fiction, beauty tips, and advice ranging from babies to plumbing. This year Good Housekeeping has a circulation of 4,233,252, tops in its 73-year history...
...moving theme -nuclear fallout in On the Beach, race prejudice in The Chequer Board, homeless children in Pied Piper. He weaves in plenty of stirring incidents and peoples his pages with strongly sympathetic, highly moral characters who land deep in a pit of trouble in the first chapter, are often still there by the last...