Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saturday. In Israel, the beaches were crowded, food was being cooked, and a modern government transacted business as usual, but in the house of Zvi Rabin-sohn, the Lord's day was being kept. In a sparsely furnished living room at Mikve Israel (an agricultural school near Tel Aviv), Zvi's son Solomon was reading aloud from the Bible; Zvi himself, a fragile old man with a flowing white beard, lay on a couch listening. Just then, a U.S. newsman came in to ask some questions about another member of the family...
Frank Leahy had been crying quietly all summer. His Irish hadn't lost a game since 1945, and his record at Notre Dame was 41 victories, three defeats and four ties. But, as usual, the future looked black to Leahy. As his 72-man squad stepped briskly through its pre-season paces at South Bend last week, Leahy looked ahead to opening day and turned away with a groan. Said he: "September 25 is going to be a sad afternoon. I think Purdue will beat...
Social life went on as usual, too. On the second day France's Koenig spread a magnificent buffet complete with pike and ham, cherry tarts and chocolate eclairs-but no Russians...
...Face. Tossy's usual job is boring the coal to receive dynamite charges. Some days he works as a loader, heaving coal with a pan shovel (like an oversized soup spoon) onto a shaker conveyor. By working two overtime shifts, he grosses about $80 a week, but income tax, union dues and other check-offs leave him only $55 take-home...
...extraverted, sometimes ungrammatical column that Kup's pub-crawling distils is blended with many predictions, on the usual columnist's theory that some are bound to come true. (About 50% do.) But it is written without malice or fakery...