Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mason gave a suave and perfectly controlled performance, such as we often get from the best British actors and have usually got from Mason himself in his many movies from Seventh Veil through Julius Caesar to Cry Terror...
Sitting around Baggs's paper-cluttered desk, candidates often proved hilariously frank in self-appraisals. One man, recalls Baggs, admitted that he was up for election because "his wife told him to run for something so he'd get publicity, meet a few people and maybe improve his law business." Another confessed to soft-pedaling a major issue he used in a previous campaign. "I still feel the same way about that," he said, "but I got clobbered on that issue the last time...
...started, the Stock Exchange also moved in to brake any big drop in Artloom stock. It banned the use of "stop orders"; i.e., orders placed in advance by stockholders to sell (or buy) when the stock reaches a certain price. Such orders to sell, as they are successively executed, often send a stock plummeting. Nevertheless, Art-loom's price sagged last week...
When the Korean war came, many U.S. distillers, recalling World War II shortages, began laying down heavy liquor stocks. But there were no shortages, and stocks piled up. Fearful of having to pay the tax after eight years, stocks were dumped on the market (often under new brand names) at cut-rate prices. Most distillers agreed that some kind of relief was necessary to eliminate price wars, but differed on what...
Thousands of volumes have been written on the subject of language, but as Author Jacobs points out, they "often appear on poor paper with narrow margins, and, what is worse, in German." This book, fortunately, is wide margined, well written and in witty English...