Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...George Romney it was the final indignity: never in his lurching pursuit of the presidential nomination had he created the impact wrought in the five minutes he took to end the quest. Seldom, in fact, has any political announcement detonated such shock waves or so rapidly reversed the positions of two men-in this case, Romney and Nelson Rockefeller. But the result for the Republican Party last week was clarification rather than confusion. Now, at last, the G.O.P. can focus on a choice between its two strongest alternatives: New Yorkers Rockefeller and Richard Nixon...
HENRIK: Why, Sir Director McBain, did you parade my characters so stiffly across the stage? They seldom move and often declaim. Why did you work so hard to cudgel the wonderment out of the play...
...pent-up resentment of the white businessmen who make their living from the slum's daily needs. These white-run enterprises, blacks complain, not only batten on the ghetto's misery by overcharging for shoddy goods but also siphon off their profits from Negro neighborhoods and seldom employ black workers...
...seldom used for sleep. A story that could happen to anyone. Maybe it could happen to you. Would you like it? See if you'd like to spend a night...
Planet of the Apes "The monkey," said Henry Ward Beecher, "is an organized sarcasm upon the human race." The sarcasm is seldom allowed to speak for itself in this film about a space odyssey that goes awry and crash-lands three astronauts on an unknown planet. They have been traveling for a cool millennium or so, but their craft has been zooming along at close to the speed of light, and so-in accordance with Einstein's Time-Dilation Theory-they have scarcely aged, save for some grey in their beards. At first, all they find is sand...