Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pitch was petulant, as usual, but the lines had the lingering quality of an old torch song at midnight. "It's never, never, never," intoned James Caesar Petrillo. "That's all there is to it." And at midnight on New Year's Eve that was all there...
Censored dispatches painted a rosy picture of Soviet plenty, but uncerisored reports told a different story. With rationing off, demand up, and Soviet bureaucracy malfunctioning as usual, the supply of bread, butter, eggs and other commodities in the state stores was not enough to equal demand. Stores imposed their own rationing, limiting what customers could buy at one go. Some customers queued & queued to get what they needed. Others adjourned to the peasants' markets, where supply was more plentiful and price ceilings off. Result: peasant market prices soared to three times the controlled prices, and peasants began...
...Dorm at Stowe, Vermont, long a popular student outing spot, survived a change of hands this year and will house its usual 50 occupants under the direction of the Vermont Forest Service. This shelter, run by AYH for several years because of the inquietude of local hotel managements, offers skiing on Mt. Mansfield during a full four-month season...
Steady but not sparkling Jim Gabler is shifted to guard where his smooth, consistent ball handling will be more at home. High-scoring hustlers Smith, McCormick, and Wegner will plunk from their usual positions of left forward, center, and right guard. Wegner has proved the smoothest and fastest man on the boards and though lack of height keeps his scoring from being consistent, his single-handed rushes under the basket are adrenalin to the Crimson's lumbering attack...
...film such as To Live in Peace, the most recent Italian Import, is cloquent proof that straightforwardness and simple realism are far better dramatic ingredients than the usual artificiality and mock heroics that accompany war movies. Even the story is simple: it concerns a little mountain town almost untouched by the war which rages around it. Untouched, at least, until two escaped American prisoners looking for shelter, which is given them by a local farmer. Their hiding and subsequent discovery provide ample opportunity for both comedy and tragedy, as well as for straight drama...