Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rolled through Court Square and headed for its next stop in front of the Empire Theater. Aboard were 24 Negroes, seated from the rear toward the front, and twelve whites, seated from front to back. At the Empire Theater stop, six whites boarded the bus. The driver, as usual, walked back and asked the foremost Negroes to get up and stand so the whites could sit. Three Negroes obeyed-but Mrs. Rosa Parks, a seamstress who had once been a local secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, did the unexpected. She refused...
...Wanamaker Mile, Olympic 1,500-Meter Champion Ron Delany ran his usual heady race, let Hungarian Refugee Laszlo Tabori and North Carolina's Jim Beatty scrap for the lead, then kicked past to finish 7 yds. in front of Tabori in a comfortable...
Coach Jack Barnaby will stay with his usual lineup with undefeated Ben Heckscher leading the way followed by Cal Place, Larry Sears, Charlie Hamm, and Charlie MacVeagh at the top five singles positions...
...more prominent cycles at the moment is dedicated to dissecting the workings of Big Business. The Great Man fits into the pattern since it takes a sharp look at the radio-television industry, but it is much better than most of its rivals. It lacks completely the usual coating of sentimental slush...
After the petition was officially presented to the Committee, the group was legally required either to revoke the appointments or to give the document to the City Council "immediately." The majority, however, claimed that "immediately" could mean 30 days, and it was voted by the usual 5-2 majority to lay the matter on the table...