Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pressing need to give away billions to foreigners so they can build businesses to compete against our own? Fourth, the clowns and fanatics who have appointed themselves the heads of the population stabilization movement's public relations department have turned the population crisis into an entertainment special. Entertainers are seldom taken seriously...
...high point of the game was the penalty-shot goal scored by the Crimson's Randy Roth at 2:29 of the second period, with the game tied at 1-1. A Dartmouth defenseman had covered up the puck in the Big Green crease, incurring the seldom-called infraction...
...however, Faisal is slowly relaxing the stark imperatives of Islam. As the King has grown older, his reign by the standards of conservative desert Arabs has become surprisingly benevolent. Although members of the royal family are expected to behave at home, they and other well-to-do Saudis are seldom reprimanded for high living abroad, even when they lose heavily at the gambling tables of Monte Carlo or Las Vegas...
...economic prospects darkened in 1974, cries for leadership were heard on all sides, yet the leaders themselves were in a state of turbulence. Seldom had so much political power changed hands in so many nations, except in the aftermath of a major...
...Terrific Person, desperately making the most of what's left when you lose defining associations." In the end, outside-insiders play prophet rather than reporter and are subject to a certain amount of repetition. Sheed's warnings may be as old as Santayana's. They have seldom been stated with more precision or more grace...