Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those times is now. Seldom before have so many groups of students organized so militantly or seemed to try so hard to reorder their colleges, their countries or the world at large. It is the biggest year for students since 1848-a year of student-led revolution in Europe...
Little Nibbles. Troops manning the guardposts must skimp along on only four or five hours of sleep a night, live on C rations and accustom themselves to an eerie and tense life during their temporary duty. There is seldom any enemy to be seen-only small Communist guardposts on the opposite hills. The terrain is rough with stumps, harsh inclines and thick, scrubby bushes. Thousands of white herons, pheasant, deer and bobcats rustle through the undergrowth, sometimes tripping flares or detonating Claymore mines. North Korean loudspeakers blare constant propaganda. When American and North Korean patrols spot each other across...
...double dose of both sex chromosomes, or XXYY, had been found in Swedish and English institutions as criminals or hard-to-manage inmates.* This made the researchers wonder whether it was the extra Y that predisposed the men to aggression. They decided to check on simpler, XYY cases, previously seldom reported...
Waddling around on feet that by all rights ought to be webbed, Oscar Madison is the slop-happiest hero in history. In midsummer, Christmas stockings still hang over his hearth, and his refrigerator is cleaned so seldom that he has milk standing up in there without the bottle. And yet, as played by Walter Matthau, he is the better half of The Odd Couple...
...judge may commit somebody on a Section 51 paper. Any patient may be represented by counsel and have a detailed hearing, which is by no means always the rubber stamp which the article implies. The reason most patients are committed under this procedure is that in practice it is seldom used except in the most difficult of cases. It should also be pointed out that two independent psychiatrists actually make the report to the judge and not the psychiatrist who makes the request for the Section 51 proceedings. These psychiatrists are not permitted to have any affiliation with the institution...