Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...career approached its end, he confided that he had never quite been able to reconcile himself to one aspect of working in Manhattan. "New York's weather," he said, in a rare departure from his usual calm scientific detachment, "is lousy...
With the smoke blown away, two things seemed clear: Colonel Adams' visits might have been unfortunately timed, but were scarcely conspiratorial; ex-President Gallegos sounded like a man whose understandable sense of shock and political injustice had overbalanced his usual sense of judgment...
...have Tom Moseley around to help. The fast left wing will be spending the evening in Stillman nursing a case of chickenpox while his teammates besport themselves on the Rhode Island Auditorium ice, and the Crimson, still looking for a second win, will be working without the usual offensive punch of the second line...
Soldiers were slightly more in evidence than usual on Caracas streets last week. There was an irksome 7 p.m. curfew, and at night Caraqueños heard isolated shots from snipers vainly trying to scare up a little counter-revolutionary enthusiasm. Except for these signs, and the new faces in Miraflores Palace, Venezuelans might almost have asked themselves, 'What coup...
Veteran singers who for years have been getting by on their voices alone nervously consulted their dressing-room mirrors, daubing on brown face paint (their usual bright red doesn't televise well). To look his best, Tenor Ramon Vinay turned up in the purple burnoose that famed Actor Edwin Booth wore as Othello...