Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning he was up early, skipped his usual ritual of a morning walk because of chilling rain. His old Army barber, Frank Spina, dropped by to give him a haircut, reported that the presidential locks had scarcely thinned since 1917. Just before noon Harry Truman got the news he had come for. Brigadier General Wallace Graham, the Presidential physician, reported that old Mrs. Truman would be sitting up by the end of the month, might even be able to walk again...
...England, where most of the telephone workers are not affiliated with any of the 39 striking unions, service was 99.7% of normal. Virginia, which requires unions to go through at least five weeks of conferences before striking a public utility, had service as usual. So did Indiana, which has a compulsory arbitration law to forestall such calamities as telephone...
...before the war ended, Edsel died and a spirit died in the old man. He was 80. One day, trotting in his usual fashion from his car to the Administration Building, he tripped and fell face down on the grass. Thereafter he walked. Edsel's son, Henry II, came home from the Navy to run the empire. An attack of acute indigestion almost finished the old man. He puttered around his Georgia plantation and Greenfield Village and the museum...
Bathed, dressed and breakfasted (bacon & eggs), he climbed into his black Cadillac and drove to the palace. The week promptly fell into its usual complicated pattern. Some highlights...
Ashmore, who is 30 but looks older, tempers his enthusiasm for reform with consideration for the facts of Southern life. Says he: "We hope to avoid the usual Southernisms, [such as] undue sensitivity to outside criticism. . . . We will maintain, however, that the Southern white man is a member of a persecuted minority, constantly damned by U.S. liberals who ignore his considerable accomplishments. ... I am a Southerner by inclination as well as by virtue of two Confederate grandfathers, but it is high time we rejoined the Union...