Word: seldomly
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Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko seldom misses Sunday Mass. It is a ritual he has faithfully observed during his nearly 30 years of absolute power, a tenure marked by the torture and killing of his opponents and corruption that has funneled much of his nation's wealth into his private pocket. Now 62 and in robust health, Mobutu governs from his native fiefdom of Gbadolite, a jungle village close to the equator. Surrounded at all times by heavily armed troops, he remains impervious to the growing clamor among 35 million Zairians for an end to his disastrously autocratic rule...
...Justice's skillfully rendered tales were seldom sweet. He liked to tell his law clerks about the time he confronted a "moderate" white-supremacist politician in the Jim Crow South with the fact that contrary to the segregationist promise of separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites, the whites in the state had a school for nursing while the blacks had none. The politician told Marshall that he could get the state to build a school for blacks, but that Marshall had to allow the politician to use his own methods. Marshall agreed, whereupon the politician immediately called...
...services aren't cheap. The graduates, who are all U.S. citizens, typically earn from $1,200 to $1,500 a month to start, and the academy collects a one-time $1,200 fee from the employer. Lesson: in the frantic search for child care, a parent's choices are seldom both cheap and legal...
...claimed he seldom listened to his records "because after you've played it, it's all gone anyway." When Dizzy laid it down, though, it changed tomorrow, and it will last forever. That's bebop, and about that there is no question...
Phrase suggesting a Soviet style of government of selective tax breaks and trade protection. Seldom used by the Clinton team...