Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...integrated schools in Little Rock. Between them, they could think of only one exception to a remarkable two-decade record of racial peace in their city. The exception: asked if he could recall any violent incidents during his 22 years on the police force, Chief Potts replied: "Just the usual thing. They'd get into rock fights once in a while after school hours." Remarked a spectator: "Imagine if they had asked the chief of police of Chicago if he could remember any incidents of racial violence over 22 years...
...lynched him," noticed that he had lost weight, that his collars were loose around his throat. She noticed something else: when Roman Catholic Ronald Davies knelt for prayer at his bedside, as he has done every night of his life, he remained on his knees longer than usual...
...Clearwater last week, softball put on its small-scale version of the World Series and crammed in a full measure of fine baseball. The final game, as usual, belonged to the pitchers. In an 18-inning final between the Sealmasters and the Bombers, Clearwater Schoolteacher Herb Dudley, 37, hung on to win, 1-0, and the Bombers hung on to their championship...
Next Tuesday morning the mail boxes in Lowell and Leverett will be opened as usual about 9:30 or 10 and a uniformed arm will reach in to place the usual bills, letters, circulars, and postcards in the little cubbyholes. But sharp-eyed members of these Houses will note that for the first time in 22 years, the boxes will opened by a new man, and the hand under the uniform will be different. For veteran letter carrier Andy Corr is retiring after bringing Bellboys and Bunnies news from home for over 20 years...
Since the editors of the Advocate have changed their format by de-emphasizing the biographical notes about contributors, the new Advocate reader will not receive the usual warning of "Mother Advocate welcomes to her bosom." However, the reader will probably be stopped by the first story in the issue, John Mautner's An Enchantment, which very likely will not produce that effect in the reader. The story, as well as its component parts, partakes of a diarrheic length. If the author is interested in attracting readers, he should take the advice he offers almost midway through the story... "but enough...