Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first suspicion that Nye was not going to do his usual roaring came as the delegates considered Leader Hugh Gaitskell's favorite proposal to switch from "oldfashioned nationalization" to a scheme for state buying of shares in key industries (TIME, July 29). Bevan, a longtime and passionate advocate of nationalization, sat impassively on the platform as old-line Socialists jeered Gaitskell from the floor. "Sheer capitalism," yelled a delegate. "I'd better take off me boots and put on me spats," said a quarry worker from the midlands. Asked old (72) Manny Shin well, grizzled orator from...
...same as that used against Maine. Coach Bill McCurdy is looking for strong performances once again from Reider and Norris, who finished first and third respectively last Saturday. Norris covered the Franklin Park course 20 seconds faster than he has ever done before; and Reider came through with his usual winning performance, despite the fact that he is not yet in top condition...
...student who loses his second book will not have it replaced. He will still retain the privilege of purchasing the usual two ticket limit in his regular class section, but in order to retain this class seating priority he must purchase these tickets before the regular application deadline...
Explaining the loophole. Agriculture could muster only a lame statement that it "did not want to regiment the U.S. farmer any more than necessary." As usual, the Agriculture Department closed the barn-door-sized loophole after the Government till had been tapped. In the next crop year, farmers who put 25 acres into the soil bank will not get price supports on more than 75 acres of total crops. But few farmers are seriously worried. Though the great sorghum game is over, farmers are sure that when the time comes there will be plenty of other loopholes to shovel surpluses...
...admirers, who have bought some 7,000,000 copies of her novels in the last 20 years, it will be good and sufficient news that another literary manhole cover is rolling their way. The Sound of Thunder, book No. 18 on the Caldwell production line, has the usual assets: an inchoate style, specious profundities, embryonic character portrayal, oppressively inconsequential detail-all embossed on a favorite theme, the troubled rise of a business tycoon. About the only noncounterfeit quality of Thunder is the solid clunk it will make high on the bestseller list...