Word: regularly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wheezing, the concierge climbed to the sixth floor of the grey building at 53 Quai d'Orsay, overlooking the same stretch of the summery Seine as the nearby French Foreign Office. A 64-year-old World War I veteran, Louis-Christophe Gaillard was a vacation substitute for the regular concierge at the Hotel du Tabac (so called because it used to house the French state tobacco monopoly). He shuffled into the main conference room, where a council meeting of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation had just ended. Gaillard moved around the green-clothed table, carefully collecting cigarette butts...
...Regular Army and Air Force officers, who put efficiency above politics, have long hoped that some day the National Guard would be truly federalized. Last week they got a surprise...
Taciturn Louis St. Laurent acted as if nothing had happened. At his regular hour of 9:20 each morning last week, the man who had just been picked as national leader of the Liberal Party and who would take over as Prime Minister in a few months, showed up for work in the almost deserted Parliament Building. He read briefs from his External Affairs staff, conferred with colleagues, dictated answers to some of the 1,500 wires of congratulations he had received. There were few interruptions and few visitors. One evening Madame St. Laurent dropped by, and they strolled across...
...caught the scene in their lenses. What made television news was the speed shown by WPIX in bringing the drama to its audience. The film was ready in the cutting room by 6; part of it went on the air at 7; the whole film was shown over the regular 7:30 newscast...
...which has let the wildcats pretty much alone, knows that the flying public likes bargain fares. It also knows that popular opinion favors competition. But CAB's mandate is to develop "a stable air transport system," and CAB knows that where the scheduled lines have to make their regular flights full or empty, and maintain many a money-losing run for "public necessity," the irregulars wait for full planeloads and raid only heavy-money runs...