Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alternative, he suggests, is to build a relatively inexpensive separate center which will provide common rooms, conference rooms, quarters for a resident Master and all the other usual facilities of a House, except individual bedrooms...
...Wisconsin's retrogressive Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy hove out of political limbo on ABC's TV Press Conference to try a comeback by his usual method, namely, whittling others off at the temples to make himself look like a larger dwarf. On Joe's current "dangerous" list: White House Assistant Sherman Adams, U.S. Delegate to the U.N. Paul Hoffman ("a throwback on the human race"), Presidential Disarmament Adviser Harold E. Stassen (a Stevensonite who "goes further" than Adlai), and the President's brother, Milton Eisenhower ("no more a Republican than ... a Hottentot"). Then McCarthy shot...
...Sponsor Crosby was busy making a movie, and, pleading lack of practice, did not play in his own tournament. In his place, Comedian Bob Hope happily hammed up the job of host, and got the tournament off to a relaxed start from which, as usual, it never recovered. When Orchestra Leader Phil Harris outdrove him, Hope glowered at his red-capped, red-socked opponent and tried some freestyle gamesmanship. "You've turned sober on me," he accused Harris darkly...
...Next week, after his spell in the limelight, Concertmaster Burgin will be back at his accustomed chair in Boston. He will mark the bowings efficiently, play his passages beautifully, and go home to Brookline on his usual commuter train, where trainmen have instructions to see that he does not lose his Stradivarius...
...studying the U.S. financial system in 1957 is that on the whole it is working so well. Despite complaints over tight credit, FRB feels that its controls are leveling off the boom to the point where credit will ease, possibly within the next six months. Thus, instead of the usual pattern of crash investigations and crisis changes, the study could progress at a careful pace, with plenty of time to make any changes needed to strengthen the system for the future...