Word: regular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, dour, cigar-raddling William Langer made life miserable for North Dakota's regular Republican organization, caterwauling his way to victory as a member of a theoretically Republican faction known as the Non-Partisan League, and voting anti-Republican every chance he got. But in 1956 the Non-Partisan League split up, part of it going over to the Democratic Party, the other part joining the regular Republicans. In that breakup, the Republicans got saddled with U.S. Senator Bill Langer. And having got him, last week they tried to get rid of him: the state G.O.P. convention voted...
...only an honest businessman, deported Manhattan Vice Czar Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, 60, convinced a Naples court commission that he is not really "socially dangerous" at all. Rejecting police arguments for closer surveillance of high-living Businessman Luciano, the commission found him "a free citizen who . . . conducts a perfectly regular life which gives no grounds for censure...
...thefinals of basketball's National Invitation Tournament at Madison Square Garden, redheaded Sharpshooter Hank Stein sank six quick points in the overtime period, to lead the erratic Xavier University Musketeers (regular season record: 15 wins, 11 losses) to an upset victory over top-seeded Dayton University...
...unknown to the West. They were drawn from the corps de ballet on the theory that they would be less hidebound by classical technique than the older dancers (an exception: famed Soloist Maya Plisetskaya, dancing the courtesan Aegina). Lavishly supported by the government, the Bolshoi currently has some 250 regular dancers and mimes, including what is probably the most brilliant collection of soloists in the world...
...near Bordeaux, France. Militarily, the place is a joke. The company captain is a whisky-tippling, well-intentioned weakling who has never successfully crossed the no man's land that separates officers from enlisted men. When Master Sergeant Albert Callan, a World War II hero and an Army regular, is assigned to the company, the captain quickly melts into the background. The men get on the ball, and the sergeant, half hated, half respected, is insistently felt as a ruthless, unbending presence who is long on Army regulations, short on common humanity. Sadly enough for Tom Swanson. the middle...