When I have occasionally managed to keep it up for more than a few days at a time, it definitely makes me a calmer, nicer person, and better able to sleep.
He told my mother: "Every new squad I get, I tell them they're the worst lot I've ever seen". He visited my mother when he could, and she occasionally managed to visit him briefly where he was stationed — Catterick, Newport, Woolwich etc. Sadly Dad died in 1955, so I don't have many of his memories to pass on.
Over the years, courts and government investigators have occasionally managed to puncture Mossack Fonseca's shield of secrecy.
Satirizing the very witch hunts that had sent him into self-imposed exile, Chaplin fashioned a diatribe against the foibles of 1950s America that only occasionally managed to nail its target.
The second fragment discusses the fad of Sewing Harems "on the planet Acirema". These were women who sewed up their vaginas but occasionally managed to conceive anyway when they rented themselves out, en masse, for the pleasure of wealthy businessmen.
The names Pantycelyn and John Davies always evoke a smile, quickly followed by a grimace at the recollection of the unique smell of disinfectant in the corridors and the stench of tobacco smoke when he occasionally managed to light his pipe.
Even Mr Berlusconi has occasionally managed to pass some liberalising measures in between battling the courts: back in 2003 the Biagi labour-market law cut red tape at the bottom, boosting employment, and many economists have praised Italy's pension reforms.
Blackburn occasionally managed to look the more enterprising of the two sides before City took the lead on the stroke of half-time, with Rudy Gestede in particular unlucky not to get on the end of a good run and cross from Ben Marshall.
Although Lateiner, Horowitz, and Shumer kept writing, and occasionally managed to put on a play, it was not a good time for Yiddish theater – or any theater – in Romania, and would only become worse as the economy continued to decline.
Openly angry women have occasionally managed to break through in comedy and music — remember when Alanis Morissette's Morrisette's "Jagged Little Pill" caused a collective pop-culture stroke?
