Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibit the Poles swarmed in at 9 every morning, often staying with sandwiches to "have lunch in America," as they put it. Towards the end of the week, when the numbers rose to an average of 20,000 every hour, the Americans were forced to close the mezzanine for fear it might collapse...
...50th anniversary. If the U.P. men bragged more and drank more than most newsmen at play, they could be said merely to be obeying the deep competitive urge that has made their hardfisted, bustling wire service second in size only to the 109-year-old Associated Press-and often ahead of it in covering the news...
...first chance at the news developed by its 1.750 member newspapers and thus, in effect, draws on a vast pool of news that no wire service could produce independently. The U.P. has no such re-use agreement with client newspapers in the U.S., and as a result often ignores or skimps many solid, second-string stories; in covering state governments, for example, or long-drawn stories such as murder trials, the U.P. is often badly outclassed by A.P. On most fast-breaking local stories, on the other hand, U.P. tends to hunt down the news more aggressively than slower-moving...
Speed Replaces Depth. Though often short on facts, the U.P. historically has compensated with brighter writing; its crisp, concise style has forced the A.P. in recent years to valiant efforts to refurbish its often stodgy copy. Style has become increasingly important as the technical speedup in communications sytems has all but eliminated the old-fashioned beat. At the same time, speed has increasingly displaced depth or even accuracy, as writing and checking time dwindle. The A.P., with more manpower, is widely accepted by editors as more accurate than the U.P. Day by day the A.P. also files more interpretive background...
...when the blues were biting, you couldn't find a live cat in town. There are even lures out now with built-in fish calls. Or you can remove the dorsal fin from a live pigfish, drop him in the water, and his little squeals of discomfort will often attract sea trout...