Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dine off gold-edged china and gold-encrusted goblets. Why criticize him now for what he and the brass did all through the war ? Once a star goes on an officer's shoulders they expect to be treated as a deity. ... It will all be "whitewashed" as usual. . . . That's the Army...
...Massachusetts, Joe Martin climbed into his black Cadillac, began his usual circuit-riding around the 63 communities he represents, listened to ideas, complaints and gossip, made careful notes of it all. Speaker Martin, who might pop up as a compromise candidate in case of a complete deadlock at the Republican presidential convention, also announced that he too, like Tom Dewey and Bob Taft, would take a trip through the West. Who had suggested the tour? Some Congressmen. Any political significance? None, said poker-faced Joe Martin...
...usual," wrote sandy New Jersey's Charles Aubrey Eaton, "we are putting our heads in the sand." Then Mr. Eaton, in the August issue of the American Magazine, buried head & shoulders in one of the most blindly undiscriminating attacks on Russia that has yet appeared in print. Since Eaton is chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, his blast was a matter of some importance...
...Embassy protested, with the usual result. The Government repudiated the protest as "malicious generalization." Last Sunday, the Government won the election, hands down...
...days before the opening, the boys had gotten together just to get the feel. Satchmo had warmed up, as usual, on a few bars from Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, then for an hour they had lazed through old favorites like Basin Street Blues, Fidgety Feet and Sugar. Finally, Louis put down his horn and hit a few high Fs in the plain-talk department...