Word: oftens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question most often asked of us-and the hardest to answer-is how TIME gets out each week. This process is, inevitably, an extremely complicated one. Below is the Art Department's attempt to answer the question. Probably no two people at TIME would agree with this flow chart in every detail, but I think that it does hit the high spots...
...last week, in the Senate investigation of Washington five-percenters (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.) it became plain that John had been playing possum the whole time. While posing as a harmless and furtive hero-worshiper, he had been engaged in all kinds of rakish and profitable enterprise, often with the enthusiastic assistance of the Government itself...
Wisconsin's Republican Senator Joe McCarthy hoped aloud that perjury charges would be brought against John as soon as the subcommittee's hearings ended. It looked as though John had played possum once too often...
There were anguished complaints from some Congressmen whose local districts would be hurt, but, mindful of the demands they had often made for economy, many a Congressman manfully choked and swallowed in silence. The services themselves were surprisingly philosophic. Said Under Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball: "We've had this coming a long time. The war is over...
...surprised to learn that Fort Penn politicians made shady deals and occasionally put figureheads in office, or that its rich were snobs and its newly rich social climbers. What may surprise them is that Novelist O'Hara documents these commonplace facts of life with so many tedious and often pointless instances...