Word: oftenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opposition is always much tougher than freshman. For the boys who come up to Weiland's squad this is even more true than at most colleges. Weiland's brand of hockey is essentially defensive, "stop the other team from scoring and get your scores on breaks," and it's often a totally new concept for the sophomores...
...home Japanese architects have long found themselves faced with a dilemma: how to be modern and still remain Japanese. When the modern movement was brought back from Europe by early Japanese students of Germany's Bauhaus and France's Le Corbusier (see below), the results were often merely derivative cubist modern...
...store's stock-both from Hallmark and from competitors-up-to-date, re-ordering when the cards get low. All the retailer has to do is ring the cash register. While others in the industry also use the system, Hall says that his company does the job more often, thus knows precisely which cards are selling, which are duds, when to introduce new designs...
...often, as Hughes sees it, waves of popular illusion have swamped U.S. statecraft. For example, since war is linked with force. U.S. folklore arbitrarily divorces the reality of power from the politics of peace. Yet, Hughes argues: "Power plus principles equals policy." Other "myths" Author Hughes finds damaging: the notion that a free society is intrinsically strong, a tyranny intrinsically weak; that economic progress assures political stability; that any division of nations is between good and evil...
...nations to which they are assigned. By contrast, the United States has traditionally used such irrelevant standards as the size of campaign contributions and long-time political service on the home front in selecting its diplomats. The result is a hit-or-miss system that occasionally succeeds, but more often ends up in quiet failure or conspicuous disaster...