Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pack of Picket-Picketers. Nobody faced starvation or even malnutrition, but some foods were almost impossible to get (although the striking stevedores were unloading relief ships from the mainland at the usual rates of pay). A few bags of potatoes and onions shipped by parcel post were gobbled up at the fancy price of 25? a pound. Rice, a staple of Hawaii's diet, was scarce. There was barely enough canned milk to feed the babies and scarcely enough feed to keep livestock and chickens alive. Mrs. Dorothy Lai had to close her little chop suey joint for lack...
They were at the tag end of the term. Next week the court hopes to hang up its tailored black robes and go fishing, putter around its roses, and occasionally study legal papers. Behind them the Nine will leave some bewildered citizens, some disgruntled federal cops, a larger than usual number of baffled and unhappy lawyers, and one of the most adventurous records in the Supreme Court's long and loquacious history...
...poked a pugnacious finger in my collar and said: 'Will you tell your American friends that we reject the plans of murderer Truman and American imperialists to start another war so they can use cheap soldiers of India to crush Soviet democracy?' Breathlessly he spun out the usual cliches, and wound up: 'Nehru is a Fascist reactionary who smokes cigarettes with Churchill and offers British warmongers the sweet mangoes and sweet tongues of India...
...equaling Ralph Metcalfe's 16-year-old N.C.A.A. record). Said Stanfield afterwards: "I figured I'd stay with him, then coast . . . then I had to run like hell to catch up as close as I did." Patton, the tension over, was out of sight as usual, racked and retching with violent nausea. With the help of his two victories, U.S.C. breezed off with the team championship. The score: Southern Cal. 55 2/5, U.C.L.A. 31, Stanford 30, Michigan State 26, Penn State 25. The day's outstanding individual performance: a 56-ft.-1½-in. heave...
...this period of a cold war, I do not believe the usual rules as to political parties apply to the Communist party. I am convinced that conspiracy and calculated deceit have been and are the characteristic pattern of behavior of regular Communists all over the world. For these seasons, as far as I am concerned, card holding members of the Communist party are out of bounds as members of the teaching profession. I should not want to be a party to the appointment of such a person to a teaching position with tenure in any educational institution. But with this...