Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...times had changed in the N.M.U. President Joe Curran, who has given many a Communist "commissar" the heave ho in recent months, declared flatly: "No one is authorized by this union to say a vessel will not sail." He added sternly: "We will settle this beef in the usual manner -through the grievance machinery." The crew backed him up. At a meeting on board the ship they voted overwhelmingly to disown Avellar's ultimatum...
After the war Pyke addressed himself with his usual passionate intensity to the problems of peace. "The underlying issue of our time," he wrote, "is whether our civilization can be reformed or whether, for progress, a revolution is essential...
...usual, the worst news continued to come from Manchuria. During the week the Communists stormed and captured the critical port city of Yingkow. The Reds boasted that the garrison had gone over to their side. In beleaguered Mukden itself, freezing citizens tore down walls and rafters for firewood...
...when he was 17, was an Evangelical pastor. Young Niebuhr never intended to be anything else but a minister. Though he lacked any degree, he succeeded in 1913 in enrolling in Yale Divinity School (they were short of students, he explains). Two years later, in a burst of his usual energy, Niebuhr...
...Gioconda Smile" used a murder incident merely as vehicle to carry the usual Huxleyan theme that lives not lived on both the sensual and rational level fall short of fulfillment. As a result the characters were not rounded, but rather each represented a perversion from Huxley's "golden mean." To develop the movie out of such a story it became necessary to make al the characters just a bit more human than they had been originally. Thus the film lost some of the story's meaning as the murder plot became an end in itself...