Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson will put less than 20 men into uniform for the game, because it depends mainly on the endurance of its first string. Tony Davies, an imported left fullback from Ireland is the mainstay of the defense. His powerful kicking often broke up threatening situations in the M.I.T. encounter last week. Gil Leaf, the left wing, scored the single goal that gave the Crimson that game...
...diagnosed as surely as was believed in what Dr. Schuman called "the happy, unenlightened first quarter of this century," because several viruses simulate its signs. Even such time-honored children's infections as measles, German measles and mumps may deceive the physician. So, said Dr. Schuman, diagnosis often cannot be positive without a battery of laboratory tests...
Like other writers struck by early success, Novelist Norman Mailer, 36, is fond of discussing his talent, often in terms that make it sound like a prize begonia. "America is a cruel soil for talent," he writes. "It stunts it, blights it, uproots it, or overheats it with cheap fertilizer." In this book, Author Mailer (The Naked and the Dead) sets aside the arduous business of novel writing and takes up horticulture. His first book in four years is a rock garden of schoolboy short stories, failed poems, fragments of plays, snippings from old novels and lumps from...
...trial to nearly everyone, his parents included. Born in 1847 in Milan, "Ohio, the infant Thomas had a head so abnormally large that the family feared he might be "defective." His cantankerous, freethinking father tried to beat sense into young Tom with a birch switch that was used so often the bark was worn off. His mother was more hopeful, and it was her reading to him from a scientific primer that started Edison on a lifetime of experimentation...
Career. Anthony Franciosa does a considerable job of acting as the sad young hero of this soap opera about show business, but the customer may be left wondering why the theater so often presents itself as one of the bleeding arts...