Word: often
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...genuinely love both Harvard and Boston-and their sports, both amateur and professional, that seem to me to be part of a peoples' heart: that unite them often-or that can reduce their enmities to manageable dimensions, when enmities arise...
...Mounts in question that a Colony world-renowned for its agricultural Expertise resided in this Sector of the Country. In fulfillment of its Passion for Novelty, Change, and Variation in Produce and Animal Husbandry, this Colony had brought Nature to her Knees. Kneeling Nature was forced by cruel and often desperate Means continually to conceive new, and yet more bizarre Progeny: Nectarines or Peas without Pods, seedless Watermelons or Corns without Cobs, fatter Cows and Porkier Pigs, plumper Chickens and more caged Cocks...
...intensify their search for the stranger. It does no good. All a subsequent investigation usually produces is a sworn statement by the cashier at the $100 window that he remembers a "tall, dark stranger" cashing in ten tickets together worth $50,000. This sort of thing does not happen often, but it does happen. Sometimes the track security agents working with the FBI (everyone licensed at a racetrack has his fingerprints taken), turn up the culprits...
...horse is not drugged. The trainer can explain that he worked some soreness out of the horse's legs. Many honest trainers can get one last race out of a sore performer before the horse goes completely lame, and the crooked trainer's explanation to the stewards must often be accepted...
...doctrinaire liberal, Traynor often opposed making new criminal-law rights retroactive for prisoners already in jail; he delivered speeches urging Californians to have more respect for the police. Some of his most important decisions had nothing to do with race or crime. One Traynor precedent made manufacturers strictly liable when their products injure consumers; another held that proving "fault" by one spouse in divorce cases is cruel and irrelevant when a marriage is dead. The California legislature has just passed a law permitting divorces on the ground of "irreconcilable differences...