Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deceased). Earl Warren joined with Old Liberals Black and Douglas to walk hand in hand in the direction of liberalism, and the bloc has been strengthened by Eisenhower-appointed Democrat Brennan. Justices Tom Clark, John Marshall Harlan or Felix Frankfurter go along with the solid, four-member liberal bloc often enough to make it a majority. Truman-appointed Republican Harold Burton has been virtually isolated as the court's only case-to-case conservative...
...land between-the land of the Bible-and as the tides of conquest and reconquest ebbed and flowed, the children of Israel and other would-be neutrals were swept off now to Egyptian bondage, now to Babylonian captivity. Today, though faces in the modern Iraqi and Egyptian crowds often show startling similarity to the classic profiles on the ancient monuments around them, neither country can claim much identity with its distant past...
...board started only last year to build its first 2,500 low-cost housing units in the capital. Nuri confessed to Parliament last fall that the highway-building program had been "a failure," owing to inadequate preliminary surveys before laying roads across a country whose water table lies often a foot or two below the surface. After critics charged that grafting was widespread, Nuri last year appointed a committee of judges who have since ordered dismissal of 300 officials, including seven provincial governors...
...Evenou lived in a fashionable house in suburban Choisy-le-Roi (of which he was once the mayor) and was regarded as a fine obstetrician. But most of his patients in Choisy thought it wiser not to call him to their sickbeds after nightfall: he often showed more than a professional interest in women. His third marriage in 1946 to gentle, adoring Marie-Claire Milhavet seemed an answer to all his problems. Marie-Claire was not only pretty and well-to-do but astonishingly broadminded. Eleven years after their marriage, Dr. Evenou was happily established at the head...
...often feel that many of those who graduate from Radcliffe could have had a better education, for while we try to educate these people to be critical, the process often stops with college. Something we often forget is that it's important to know how to buy books, and to want to buy books...