Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most clouds and fogs are made of water droplets that are too small to fall. Nature has various methods of making the droplets grow big enough to fall as rain, but they are not always in operation. Often great clouds heavy with water float across a thirsty land without dropping rain, or fog hangs for hours over an airport...
...much of the art himself, and gets the rest by a grandiose form of flattery. As publisher of 32 newspapers and five magazines, and as owner of 24 radio and three TV stations, he can elaborately praise any rich Brazilian who donates good art to the museum. Quite often he praises them even before they have thought about donating...
Readers' Sensibilities. The Bible translator, Phillips feels, must pay close attention to context-not only the context in which a word appears, or the context "of supreme urgency and often of acute danger" in which a passage was composed, but also the context of the modern readers' sensibilities. This leads him to some surprising alterations. In the King James passage describing the raising of Lazarus, for instance, Martha protests Christ's command to open the tomb with the words: "Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days." Phillips' version: "But Lord...
...precinct and ward levels where political decisions are made and officeholders chosen." McDonnell's words underlined a significant change in business thinking about politics. In the past, many a businessman and corporation has played a part in making political decisions and choosing officeholders. But the influence has more often been exerted behind the scenes than out front on political platforms. Now more and more corporations are going to work at the precinct level, as well as speaking out boldly on issues and candidates...
...Americans who have followed General Napier into Asia are far more apt to say peccavi without intending a pun. Vast numbers of well-meaning Americans are instantly ready to feel guilty and inadequate about their nation's role among the "underdeveloped" peoples. This book is a slashing, oversimplified, often silly and yet not-to-be-ignored attack on the men and women who have taken up the white man's burden for the U.S. in Southeast Asia...