Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five is miles out in front in A League basketball after five straight wins, with second-seeded Dunster next. The 14 game schedule means that each team must face the Bellboys twice, a task that is not for the weak, but it is possible that they will delay their usual last-minute rush until too late...
Last week Bob Considine was ghosting another surefire script for 150 newspapers: the story of Robert E. Stripling, longtime chief investigator for the House Committee on Un-American Activities. As usual, Considine faced a deadline that would have daunted a less workmanlike writer. The first of his 28, "as told to" articles (average length: 1,800 words) would go to press next week, just a month after he took on the job. As usual, Considine's first version would be the last...
...Hollywood. A more nervous ghost would be scared stiff by Considine's working schedule, but he remains a calm 190 pounds. One day last week Considine got up at 9 a.m., wrote two Stripling articles, skipped lunch as usual, interviewed Stripling for five hours, wrote a sport column, had dinner, gave a broadcast, wrote two more Stripling pieces before...
...Allen, as usual, had the last word. Explaining the involved mysteries of Hooperatings to his (according to Hooper) diminishing audience, Allen said: "[Hooper] calls up a few people . . . and tells you how many listeners you have in the whole 48 states. It's like multiplying the bottom of a bird cage and telling you how many grains of sand there are in the Sahara Desert...
While he wrestles with his problem, there comes a bid from Washington, to serve on a technical mission to "Alba," a fever-ridden province in a South American country. Harmon grabs at the chance. In Alba, he begins to find new resources within himself. He bucks the "business-as-usual" policies of the mission's chief, blimpish Colonel Burling; he finds an understanding friend in Ernestina Manriquez, neglected wife of a rich landowner. From her he regains the "sense of recklessness, the grandeur of being a man, being male." But it is from his new friend Vicente Hidalgo...