Word: irregularly
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Latin scholars, whenever they peek out from behind their soup-stained neckties and that untidy mess of irregular verbs, seem to be nice old dears. Take Alexander Lenard, M.D., a 50-year-old Hungarian linguist who for the last eight years has been teaching and farming in a small town near Sāo Paulo, Brazil. When he first read A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, he apparently thought of all those poor little children in ancient Rome who would never be able to read it, and he felt just awful. There was only one thing...
...plotted structure. The skillful shifting of the rhyme scheme, and its complete abandonment at one point, reinforce the progression of Mr. Holden's ideas; and the entire poem (to commit sacrilege upon a hallowed text) is an admirable illustration of how a banal thought may be garnished with the irregular combinations of fanciful invention, until the product may be read with greatest pleasures of sudden wonder...
...then flooded with 20 ft. of water to protect the technicians from radiation while they lowered specially designed long-handled tools into a flanged opening, 2⅛ in. in diameter, at the top of the vessel. Then, cutting torches and reamers, operated by delicate levers, rounded out the irregular-shaped holes in the reactor shell, making them easier to patch...
...will return to New York University to receive the Gallatin Award (former recipients include Jonas Salk and Ralph Bunche) for her contributions to law. In the past, 23 colleges and universities have awarded her honorary law degrees. As for the future, Judge Allen will continue to be available for irregular service as a Senior Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals...
...This was all right for the other three, all better-than-average golfers. Since I have never broken 100 and have been known to endanger spectators no more hazardously placed than at right angles to my line of fire, my vision blurred, my knuckles went white, my breathing became irregular, and I was unable to look in the President's direction. Some how I hit the ball about 170 yards and happily lurched down the fairway, content with the greatest social triumph of my White House days...