Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grasping the full, unwelcome meaning of Russian-made metal objects orbiting around the earth. Sputnik I and Sputnik II have painfully fractured the U.S.'s contented expectation that, behind an impenetrable shield of technological superiority, the nation could go on with the pursuit of happiness and business as usual this year and the next and the next. Now the U.S. has to live with the uncomfortable realization that Russia is racing with clenched-teeth determination to surpass the West in science-and is rapidly narrowing the West's shielding lead...
...usual, investigators were quick to point out that there were many other reasonable explanations for the phenomena: ball lightning, the brilliance of Venus, now entering its brightest period, the breathtaking vision of the northern lights, and, with Sputniks 1 and 11 spinning aloft, the tendency of some imaginative people to go the Russians one better. Sighed the Air Force last week: in ten years, investigators have tabulated about 5,700 "sightings," accounted for all but 2% as being strictly natural, in an earthling sense...
...grown in the Indies. Cocoa and citrus are grown; cotton has been grown; but no other crop is able to utilize the combination of cheap and superabundant labor and the tropical climate in so lucrative a way or provide as many jobs. So there seems no so-5The usual picture of the Caribbean features tall drinks, dancing girls, and sandy beaches. This is part of the picture...
When World War II came, Grace went to work furiously as usual. Beth Steel became one of the top U.S. war contractors, turned out 73 million tons of steel, built 1,127 ships, repaired or overhauled 37,000 others. More than any other civilians, Grace and his lieutenant, Arthur Homer, got the credit for building a two-ocean navy...
Putzi's book, probably his last attempt to capitalize on his career as Naziism's foremost political pianist, often reads like an edition of Munich Confidential. Politically and morally, it has the usual 20-20 hindsight. Its value for future historians will lie mostly in the gossipy anecdotes that show Hitler in his moments of off-platform relaxation-some of them very comic, as when Adolf, after the failure of the beer hall Putsch, threatens to commit suicide, but allows himself to be easily disarmed by Hanfstaengl's pregnant wife...