Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...performance is all the more sensational when his diet is taken into account. He eats two meals a day-potatoes, corn, quinoa (all first domesticated by Andean Indians) and, very rarely, guinea pig. Andes men seldom get enough to eat; many chew coca leaves to help dull their hunger...
Often battered, seldom beaten Henry Armstrong, 36, who eleven years ago held three world's championships (featherweight, lightweight, welterweight), and more recently has been managing fighters, announced in California that he intends to take a punch at the devil. He expects soon to be ordained a Baptist minister, tour the country preaching to sinners...
...Rough. Seldom had pro football seen such a superbly integrated gang of old pros-and Greasy Neale, 58, was the oldest pro of them all. "I won't sit next to him on the bench," cracks Van Buren, "he's too rough." Greasy runs the Eagles with the casual despotism of an old athlete who can never quite forget that he was a fast, elusive end at West Virginia Wesleyan, where he got his nickname...
...Seldom has a melodrama flashed so many tricks of the trade-pianos, radios, telephones, striking clocks, blinking lights, swinging doors, even false statements in the program. Yet The Closing Door is much more seriously written than the usual thriller and is full of clinical detail and therapeutic advice, some of it Freud and some of it scrambled. If this adds to the weight of the play, it only proves, in terms of good melodrama, a dead weight. Toward the end, however, as the adolescent events that poisoned Vail's life emerge simultaneously with the frightful method he took...
...shows how Poet E. E, Cummings intends his wrenchings of language, typography and punctuation as devices to praise the individual "human" in man and to satirize his faceless "public" front; how the delicate verses of Poetess Marianne Moore pounce on details of sight and touch in a way prose seldom does ("the blades of the oars moving together like the feet of water-spiders...