"Seldom a week goes by without some calamity or other," Lottie thinks.
This open-mindedness was reflected in his perpetual fascination with the subject: he once told me that seldom a week passed when he did not meet some new, often extraordinary, facet of human behaviour.
Very seldom a week goes by that he doesn't call me down to his office, or wander in here and close the door and say, 'Wait a minute, what about this?' " Empire-building is not encouraged in the Obama administration.
Health behaviors were assessed by the frequency of physical activity (hard breathing, sweating), and going to bed after midnight ("never", "seldom", "once a week", "twice a week", ">twice a week") and by skipping breakfast and smoking of cigarettes ("never", "seldom", "1-2 d/week", "3-4 d/week" or "every day").
Still, seldom has a week passed in the last few months when a House or Senate Democrat, fearful of the outcome in the midterm elections, has not switched parties or retired.
The subject permitted a rare blend of invective and speculation — both Hearst papers, as I recall, ran cartoons of Stalin being rebuffed at the gates of Heaven, where Hearst had no correspondents — and I have seldom enjoyed a week of newspaper reading more.
For instance, consuming fruits very seldom (once a week or less) was associated with an OR of 2.53 (CI 2.10-3.03) for snus use among men, to be compared with an OR of 5.55 (CI 4.27-7.23) to be a smoker and of 9.63 (CI 5.59-16.6) to be a dual tobacco user.
The relentless schedule inside the ring was matched by a mesmerising itinerary on America's fledgling roads and railroad lines, as Flowers went from fight to fight with seldom more than a week between bells.
There was 17 years of this journeyman work, seldom lasting beyond a week, until Nimoy was cast as Mr Spock in the pilot for a new series, Star Trek, pitched by the producer Gene Roddenberry as "Wagon Train to the Stars".
The parents' use of the Internet as an information source in parenting was categorized into the groups "Never", "Once a month/more seldom", and "Daily/Once a week".
The response categories were: "Never", "More seldom than once a week", "At least once a week", "At least three times a week", "At least once a day", "At least three times a day", "At least seven times a day".
