Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...husband and I have often chuckled over an imaginary percussive album called Music to Argue...
...notably suited to do the job. Loy Henderson, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration, one of the U.S.'s "five-star" career diplomats,* has risen during 35 years of quiet, stylish diplomacy to successive new highs of influence and prestige in the State Department, where he is often called "Mr. Foreign Service." His specialties: Soviet Communism and the Middle East...
SYRIA sits at such a vital crossroads-between Europe, Africa and Asia-that the traffic through it has always been heavy, and its inhabitants have never had much chance for peace and quiet. Often a battleground, usually under foreign occupation, the area has no indigenous name; the word Syria was adopted by the Greeks to describe the rich, wide crescent stretching from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates...
...daughter. This is because whenever a traveling salesman visits a Japanese farm, daughter is working in the rice fields, chopping wood or feeding the chickens, and the best a poor salesman can hope for is a chat and a cup of tea with dear old dad, who often enough is not doing anything...
...phrase. Long after most readers have forgotten his flamboyant Cropleighs, they will remember such fine set pieces as the marriage of Julia and the wake of Joe Cree with its barbecue, and the excellent sketches of the mountain people, whose folk talk has the pith and point too often lacking in the rest of the novel...