Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year, as usual, many of you nominated your own candidates (see LETTERS). Among the nominees: Billy Graham, Governor Faubus, Laika, Jonas Salk, President Eisenhower, Bert and Harry Piel, Khrushchev, Nobel Prizewinner Lester Pearson, Mike Todd and two, symbolic nominees, the scientist and the American Negro...
...profoundly depressed when representative after representative of the British government . . . has no advice to give to the nation except to build up one more tier of ridiculous armaments on the useless pile we have created." The government won the vote, 289 to 251. But its majority was smaller than usual, and five right-wing Tories abstained...
Leaving the Castel Nuovo, the Christian Democrats passed by a long queue of Neapolitans lined up to receive the mayor's usual Christmas distribution of free spaghetti and canned tomatoes. As a political argument, it was hard to beat. Groaned a Christian Democratic politician: "It looks as if Lauro wants to move from misgoverning a city to misgoverning the nation...
...lives with "total concentration" the character she is playing; if she wants a glass of water between takes, it is the character who makes the request. She covers her scripts with more interpretive notes than there is dialogue-but sometimes the writing is not in her usual hand. It is in what she imagines to be the handwriting of the character she is playing...
...always gotten out of life. I'm confident I'm off on the greatest adventure of my life; the biggest assignment any newspaperman could have. And now, my friends in the composing room, just finish off this last story slugged 'Limpus' with the usual...