Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave him a round of applause. After taking his place in his big, straight-backed, black leather Cabinet chair, he explained that he felt well, but was conscious of speaking more slowly after his stroke (no one in the room could detect it) and would therefore talk less than usual. During the rest of the sessions he frequently came and went, leaving Vice President Nixon to preside while he went back to the business at his own desk or took time off for resting...
...Success. The first day of the legislative sessions was set aside to discuss foreign policy with leaders of both parties. The second day was spent reviewing domestic programs with Republicans, headed by Senate Leader Bill Knowland and House Leader Joe Martin. The meetings were held weeks earlier than usual, so as to give ranking members of Congress a chance to participate in the formulation of policy. The speedup was hardly a success: Republicans were indignant because the Democrats were called in so early; Democrats, who had long fumed at being left out until the last moment, now complained that they...
Pettigrew recognized two active types of segregationists--the "violence if necessary" and the "business as usual". He found that the first group, composed of the lower class, would resort to violence because they had neither reputation nor property to lose. The second group would not resort to violence because coming from the upper class, they could lose both...
...leadership of the running rebellion is so prosperous, conservative and respectable that amused Habaneros are calling it "the best-dressed revolution in history." Of the chief rebel plotters outside the Sierra, four are lawyers, three are physicians, two are financiers, one a millowner. Deftly combining rebellion with business-as-usual, each earns more than $20,000 a year. The rebels conspire behind brocade curtains in air-conditioned homes and offices. Wrote TIME'S Reporter Sam Halper after sitting in on one such meeting last week: "Silent servants opened the doors, poured the drinks and arranged the foam-cushioned armchairs...
...eight months before Pastor Schmutzler was brought to trial, while the Reds evidently tried to break his spirit. Last week 150 hand-picked "workers" and "observers" were assembled in the Leipzig district court for a show trial. Western newsmen were barred, and even the Communist papers significantly omitted their usual lush descriptions of the defendant's cringing and pleading for clemency. Siegfried Schmutzler's sentence: five years at hard labor. Top churchmen throughout East and West Germany protested, but they knew that in a real sense the sentence represented a victory for unbreakable Pastor Schmutzler. Said Hamburg University...