Word: seldomly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...formed with the reactionaries. If he sticks with them, he may save his position of power but lose his place in history. It would be tragic if he were to suffer the fate of so many reformers in the past: those who plant the seeds of reform seldom reap the harvest...
Silver-Plated Muzzle: JOE BIDEN Judiciary Committee hearings seldom get under way until the Delaware Democrat finishes showboating with witnesses as the TV cameras roll...
...ailing daughter. The details of his life are wonderfully exact: a bottle of Camel Royal Blue Ink, old copies of Bertrand Russell, an 1897 edition of Barrere and Leland's Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant. And Mistry catches the pungent cadences of Indian English as they have seldom been caught before: "What everything have you told them? Always I shout and scream, while nice Daddy watches quietly...
That will not be easy. Japanese foreign policy, seldom clear and never bold, is now a shambles. In recent years Tokyo has navigated a cautious course that emphasized its commitment to the Western alliance, and to the United Nations as a forum for settling international disputes. But the Japanese began to chafe under Washington's domination as their economic clout seemed to entitle them to a more prominent voice in policymaking. And as American strength waned, the U.S. found itself increasingly resentful that its former enemy had profited so well from the lessons of the West...
Investigative reporter. The words conjure up grizzled newsmen in dark trench coats meeting at midnight with "Deep Throat" sources. As professional journalists know, such glamorous notions are seldom accurate. Yet for TIME correspondents Jonathan Beaty and Sam Gwynne, who together unearthed and wrote last month's story on the scandal engulfing the Bank of Credit & Commerce International and this week's special report on the B.C.C.I. as well, the reality of chasing the yarn was as thrilling as the best detective fiction...