Word: usual
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...effort with considerable anticipation and urge one and all to be similarly on the look-out. It should be good for a few laughs, but actually, if we know the News, the plan will fall through at the last minute, and we'll have to be content, with the usual, dry Yalie Dailie fare...
Gene Coker, a standout performer against Princeton, will start at fullback, and Winterbauer will be in his usual quarterback slot. The starting halfbacks will be Dick Winkler and Herb Hallas, who caught a 53-yard pass from Winterbauer in Saturday's game, only to have it called back on a penalty...
Reports were conflicting about the fate of the dog riding in Sputnik 11. For six days after the launching, Russian scientists reported that she was well and that data about her physical condition were being radioed to earth. On the seventh day the Russians reported as usual on the motions of Sputnik II but did not mention its famed passenger. Two days later Italy's Communist newspaper L'Unita reported that the dog had been killed by a drug in her last portion of food...
...University of Michigan's annual Conference on the Economic Outlook last week, 108 topflight experts assembled for one of the year's most important business gatherings and gave their forecasts for 1958. As usual, the opinions spread across the full spectrum. But while in past years the great majority saw nothing except boom on boom, this time the prevailing forecast was for a downturn-though a minor one. Of 68 conference members answering a poll on 1958 business, most agreed that business would slip a bit until well into 1958, with an upturn starting late in the year...
...once seemed to possess. All the inevitable ingredients are here, the triangle--or is it a pentagon--of passions, the sensitive man who kills the thing he loves, etc., replete with much fondling and other fine Gallic touches. Of course the "unhappy ending" has become stock too, with the usual frustrations, murders, and general cataclysm. The plot is so implausible that the outcome seems apparent before this charming idyll has ground through the first reel...