Word: oft
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...troops had met crushing defeat and perhaps faced annihilation, the disaster and its implications became the subject of endless shocked conversations. Some of them were almost monosyllabic: men meeting on the street sometimes simply stared at each other and then voiced the week's most oft-repeated phrase-"It looks bad." This silence marked many men who had fought in World War II. Said a Purple Heart veteran in Des Moines: "I quit turning on my radio-I don't want to hear the news." Through all the talk there were overtones not of fear but of futility...
...South shivered in some of the lowest November temperatures ever recorded. Snow fell in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia: the thermometer went down to 3 in Atlanta, 19 in Baltimore, 17 in Richmond, i below in Nashville, 17 in Charleston, 2 below in Asheville, N.C. Florida's oft-bedeviled 'citrus growers toiled with smudge pots in a battle to save their perishable crops...
Though old the thought and oft expressed, 'Tis his at last who says it best...
There was an upsurge of conservatism in the Midwest. Voters were alarmed by Government spending, higher taxes, the suspicion that the State Department had played footie with Communists within its own organization and in Asia. They were suspicious of what Harry Truman might do with his oft-repeated Fair Deal program-the Brannan Plan, repeal of Taft-Hartley, etc.-if he got full control of the 82nd Congress. Republicans swam in the conservative tide and rode it to the beach...
...virus's appetite for nucleoproteins suggested an explanation of the oft-reported link between physical fatigue and the severity of a polio attack, said Dr. Melnick. The nucleoproteins are believed to be reduced by extreme fatigue. Therefore, if the polio virus attacks an exhausted person, the supply of nucleoproteins will be at a minimum and the virus will soon consume it, causing the death of the nerve cells. But if the infected person is well rested and has an abundant store of nucleoproteins in his nerve cells, the virus may be able to satisfy its own needs without destroying...