Word: oftens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of the Cooperative Commenwealth Federation, a political party whose position corresponds roughly to that of the British Labour Party, and which holds 13 seats in the federal parliament, forms the government of the provice of Saskatchewan and the Official Opposition in Ontario and British Columbia. He often speaks at the Kingston branch of the CCF and has been a frequent news commentator on the national hookup of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (a government department). As far as I know he hasn't alarmed anyone but the Tory newspapers in Montreal and Toronto, and the Canadian Manufacturers Association...
...days of the one-hoss shay and the stage-coach are generally considered to be over; a car is often not merely a convenience but a necessity at college. Cambridge's snarled traffic and winding streets are bane enough to car owners without the curse of the parking ordinance. The ban is no use to the firemen; it means nothing more than extra work for the Police Department; for students it is the last straw. There is only one group of people who stand to gain from the parking law, and they are the proprietors of the local garages...
...five years unable to walk without crutches, stood before Robert. "You will be cured," he pronounced, and witnesses swore that she walked away without crutches. Not all supplicants found such response. With crowds on hand from 8 a.m. till midnight, the four children had to work in shifts, were often irritable...
...Ormsby's version of 1885, is stiff, and the Peter Motteux translation of 1700, the only one in U.S. print for more than a decade, has been called "worse than worthless." What Sainte-Beuve called "the Bible of humanity," and Dostoevsky "the greatest utterance of the human mind," often seems little more than a scrambled dictionary of archaic and occasionally gamy slang. A few pages of it are about all most readers can stand. As a result, the Knight of the Mournful Countenance is handed down by hearsay as nothing more than the original nut who tilted at windmills...
Cervantes wrote his masterpiece while in his 50s and 60s, sick to death of the dropsy, jailed as often as not on a recurring charge of embezzlement, harried with an incredible series of family troubles. He was at the bitter end of a bitter life, yet shortly after Don Quixote was done he wrote sweetly: "Goodbye to thanks, goodbye to compliments, goodbye to good friends. For I am dying." Miguel de Cervantes died on April 23, 1616, the same day as William Shakespeare...