Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Henry Wallace and his third party in a special election in The Bronx (see Political Notes). A Gallup poll indicated that Wallace was probably strong enough in Chicago to throw all of Illinois to the Republicans. And their own Southern revolt, which had at first seemed like the usual quadrennial fireworks, now looked more like a genuine blaze...
Premier of France Robert Schuman, who had just gone through an Assembly session which might or might not result in the fall of his Cabinet, smiled. "As usual," he said. "It seems they are giving me three weeks to find you a cheap steak...
...after, London's policemen put their unused guns away, calmly went back on duty, unarmed as usual...
...pale, ailing little priest prepared for his speech as usual, by spending four or five hours in concentrated prayer. This time, he fainted as he knelt in prayer, and had to be carried to the rostrum. There his strength returned and the words poured from him with such power and passion that many of his hearers wept...
...Ellis M. Zacharias, Columnist Frank Kent, Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer and Lord Inverchapel could damn the torpedoes or anything else they pleased. Some did and some didn't. Last week Cartoonist-Author Bill Mauldin, who used to be an Army enlisted man himself, stood up front. As usual, no officers were invited, but a record 1,200 midshipmen turned...