Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With 163 crews competing, the narrow stretches of the Thames near Henley were constantly crowded, and as usual there was no room for the coaches to go out in launches. Instead it is the inflexible custom at Henley for each to follow his crew on a bicycle along the Tow Path which parallels the river. Part of this path is paved, but along much of its length grazing cattle preserve its rustic integrity...
...even he must have anticipated, Nikita's taxi-pool plan evoked no display of overwhelming enthusiasm from his subjects. And for all his usual adroitness, Khrushchev dropped a real clanger when he sniffed that, in the capitalist U.S., "People say: 'This is a lousy car, but at least it is my own.' " Parking problem or no parking problem, this is a statement that most Russians would clearly like to be able to make...
Many workers are using their new popularity to get wages double or treble the union rate, while some employers are cutting working hours. When Volkswagen opened its new Kassel truck plant, 3,000 workers were put on a 4O-hour week v. 44 in the usual contract. Other plants offer cut-rate housing, fatter pensions, and so-called Thirteenth Salary, i.e., a month's pay at Christmas, now almost standard in Germany...
...months he lives in the inevitable cold-water flat with an orange crate for an icebox, and walks the streets from one tryout to another. Nothing doing. Then a talk-big, pay-small type Dean Martin) gives him a good part in a bad play in the usual cellar in Greenwich Village...
...varsity's defense was, as usual, impenetrable. Lanny Keyes played a nearly perfect game at left fullback, and halfback Charlie Steele bottled up the Columbia attack on the right. At the one point when a sensational stop was needed, goalie Tom Bagnoli came through. In the fourth quarter, Lion center forward Haakan Rutchinsky had a clear shot from close in, but Bagnoli rose to the occasion with a spectacular diving save...