Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fall's entering class, Miss Ballou said. She explained that the size of the class is dictated by the amount of housing space available. It is believed that the housing shortage for next year is related to the fact that this year's graduating class is somewhat smaller than usual...
...about to witness a death-defying leap. The acrobat says what he is going to do. The announcer says when he is going to do it. But when he actually does it, the audience gasps just the same. Similarly, the Pentagon gasped rather than shook at the news. As usual, the chief Washington concern was whether the British cut might snowball through other NATO nations. But in general there was an underlying approval that Britain had at last adjusted its military cost to its economic cloth...
...With its usual indifference to audience ratings, Radio Moscow doggedly droned forth the entire report, all 20,000 tedious words of it. Then, day after day, while Pravda, Trud and Izvestia printed interminable pages of commentary, Agitprop specialists fanned out across Russia to whip up support among the workers. Russia's bosses were conditioning their subjects to Nikita Khrushchev's plan for the most radical shake-up of Russian industrial organization since the early days of the Soviet regime...
Although it completely dominated an exhausted New York team for the last 20 minutes of the game, the Crimson played far below its usual standard. As it was, the New Yorkers, who almost all spend the week behind office desks, were beaten largely by the game's fast pace...
...that question is not the issue you raise, as I see it. You disavow any intent to criticize the Harvard administration or to interfere with its usual processes of selection of teachers, speakers, subject matter, etc. But your activities amount to just such criticism and interference, and nothing else...