Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most famous surgeons. Dr. Pietro Valdoni. worked over Togliatti for 2½ hours while Signorina Iotti and Togliatti's wife, white-haired Rita Montagna, stood in the doorway. Togliatti's Socialist ally, Pietro Nenni. wandered aimlessly about the corridors. Premier Alcide de Gasperi, his face greyer than usual, hurried to the Policlinico. "This," he said grimly as he left, "is the worst possible thing that could have happened...
Cynical Turning. Could the Democratic Party have avoided its civil war? The usual omens of political debacle were missing. The nation was prosperous at home, was working out a popularly approved program for decisive action abroad. On the face of it, Harry Truman himself seemed like a candidate who might have pleased all factions...
...rebels, and the last drummer in the Eisenhower parade, made the most of the spotlight. He strode into the abandoned Eisenhower headquarters, bussed his wife at the cameramen's request and proclaimed that he would "accept the draft." Said Claude Pepper: "This is no time for politics as usual...
...conference moved to London. There, for the next five weeks, the bishops of the Anglican Communion will meet in the historic library of Lambeth Palace. The prelates should have much to say to each other; thanks to World War II, it has been 18 years, instead of the usual ten,* since they last met. But it will be some time before the 20,000,000 communicants and the public at large know what they have said. All sessions are closed to the press: only after the conference ends (on Aug. 8) will an official report summarize Lambeth's conclusions...
Schary said he would resign, but Hughes, as usual, had the last word: a fortnight before the date agreed upon, he summarily canceled three pictures that Schary had announced for production. Producer Schary quit two days later. Cracked the studio's new boss: "It saved me paying him two weeks' salary...