Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington for a crucial vote and return for an evening meeting," recalls Maury DeJonge, a newspaperman who has covered Ford for many years. Many summers Ford spent two weeks crisscrossing his district in a trailer to talk with home folks. He was regarded as an effective Congressman, though he seldom bagged rich federal projects for his district. His straight-shooting constituents would have thought it a bit wasteful if he had done more...
...American rock group works harder or equals the decibel level of Lynyrd Skynyrd, a band of seven Southerners who seldom see their homes outside Jacksonville. An energetic blend of English heavy metal and funky, rural blues, Skynyrd's music occasionally dominates its lyrics, but their teeny-tot fans like it that way. The group, named after the members' high school gym teacher (perversely spelled but phonetically pronounced), has sold more than 3 million albums. Its fifth LP, One More from the Road, has recorded sales of 350,000 copies since its release four weeks...
...meeting began at 4:15 p.m. and adjourned at 6:15 p.m. promptly. In the intervening two hours, the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life waded through an eight item agenda with an efficiency seldom seen in the last two years...
Edwards carded his 79 in methodical fashion as he was seldom in any trouble, but like his teammates was hampered by the grainy and very bumpy greens. "Edwards' score was really a nice surprise," Donovan said, but added that "he had pops at eight or nine birdies...
...inspirational qualities. One, by the "8341 unit" of the People's Liberation Army, charged with sentry duty at Mao's Peking residence, Forbidden City, stressed his abstemious habits and concern for the masses. Mao, the soldiers noted, worked "at all hours," frequently "ignoring calls to meals" and seldom resting, even on holidays and festivals. His shirts, shoes, blankets and sheets were said to be "worn thin from many years of use"; Mao refused to have his quarters refurbished for 20 years after "liberation" in 1949. In short, Mao was a model of the selflessness that was the heart...