Word: regular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Belsano, Pa., where Black Lick Creek runs down the western slope of the Alleghenies. Young Willie did his share of farm chores, took the bus to Black Lick Township school, found time to play the drum in the school band, and got into enough extracurricular trouble to be a regular visitor at the principal's office. "I didn't like girls much then," says he, almost with surprise...
...reason was simple political necessity, not any miraculous conversion to democracy. The Cuban constitution required a regular presidential election; prevailing public opinion held that an honest election required restoration of constitutional guarantees for at least 90 days before the June 1 balloting. And the U.S. Government, whose approval and arms shipments are invaluable to Batista, put discreet pressure on him to observe the law and hold free elections...
Better care of pets in their youth and prime has prolonged their lives, set vets to talking of geriatrics. Los Angeles' Dr. Raymond Sprowl has a hundred old dogs on a regular digitalis regimen. Dr. McBride regularly treats grizzled males for prostatitis (usually by castration) and performs mammectomies on females. Operations for cataract are everyday affairs; some aging, presbyopic dogs have been fitted with plastic contact lenses...
...weirdly effective sequence showing how the Hova of Madagascar dig up their dead each year, roll them in shiny new wrappings and carry them about in a gay shuffle dance before returning them to their graves-a ritual precisely symbolic (though Thomas did not note it) of regular tribal practices among the TV idea men of Madison Avenue...
...used-and-new Dodge. Pontiac and Plymouth car lots in Compton. Pasadena, Long Beach and Hollywood, Caruso refined cheating, double-dealing and intimidation into such a formalized art that he actually conducted regular classroom sessions to teach his salesmen (nine of whom got lighter sentences) how to go about it. Salesmen were instructed to get customers to sign blank contracts, later cut the trade-in allowance and raise the new car price they wrote in on the contract. They were taught to spout figures at a torrential rate to confuse the buyer, and to never put a deal in writing...