Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordinarily was one of harassed patience. I never once saw him lose his temper, in spite of maddening and innumerable provocations. When they became unendurable, he would merely sigh, run his fingers through his rumpled tussock of greying hair and grit his stainless steel teeth. (That's the usual material for bridgework in the U.S.S.R. because of the shortage of dental porcelain...
...usual, the little Father needed to be translated. He meant his spiritual body, not his own plump, proper person. And in Divine lingo, spiritual body included the 2,000 white "angels" who live in Swiss "heavens" and believe Father's word that...
...about as rare in the U.S. as quadruplets. Last week in Berkeley, Calif, a new one took the air. The Paganini Quartet (so named because their cello, viola, and two violins are Stradivarii once owned by the great violinist, Niccolo Paganini) played Beethoven and Debussy at a brisker than usual clip, but the music was warm and dramatic. Wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's critic, Alfred Frankenstein: "Perhaps never before has one heard a string quartet with so rich, mellow and superbly polished a tone...
Bill shook his head. He suggested that he be hired and they'd both find out what Paramount wanted. He got the job and applied his usual pattern to it: five parts research, four parts deduction, one part designing. The functional plans he produced made Paramount ecstatic, brought him offers from other studios as well...
...difference between Joy and such popular religious novels as The Robe and The Song of Bernadette is the difference between a papal nuncio and a parish priest. Essentially a parable of intellectual temptation, the book is primarily dialectical in method, and almost wholly devoid of the usual stage effects of fiction. It is charged with burning vitality, but its drama exists mainly in the consciences of the characters...