Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...testing his new equipment. He seemed to enjoy the exercise, playing with his daughter Madeleine (Mrs. Hugh O'Donnell). But no one outside the family could say whether the set of championship sticks had any magical effect on Duffer St. Laurent's chronically 100-plus game. As usual, he kept his score a deep secret...
Sunday morning, air force planes patrolled the skies and troops deployed on the streets. From the military academy on the outskirts of the capital, Colonel Caraccioli telephoned Lozano: the time of decision had come. After holding out for the usual guarantees of life and property for himself and his associates, the old man signed his resignation...
...first Aida at La Scala in 1950, she startled the crowd by stalking about like a hungry leopard instead of taking the usual stately stance for her Act III duet. In the death scene of Fedora, in which sopranos tend to expire stiffly on a divan, Callas staggers from it, sags to her knees, drags herself up, crawls towards her lover's room, collapses again before she finally rolls down and dies. In Norma she has cried real tears. Operagoers. long reconciled to the classic, three-gesture range of other prima donnas, are astounded and delighted...
...took the girls for a visit to Athens. They were caught there by the beginning of World War II. But Maria was undeterred. She won a scholarship at the old National Conservatory, where for the next four years she arrived early, left late, learned a libretto in a week (usual time: two months). She sang for Italian and German soldiers, who gave her bags of sugar and macaroni to help feed her family. She weighed 200 Ibs. "She never flirted. Nobody courted her. She was awkward and ashamed," says her teacher. "She had a real inferiority complex except about...
...Michigan State rolled over and around Notre Dame. As usual, State was no better than tied (7-7) at the half, as usual roared out after Coach Daugherty's briefing to massacre the enemy. With State's three sets of backs blasting out the yard age, they swamped the Irish 47-14. With Fullback John Herrnstein scoring three touchdowns, Michigan rolled to a 34-20 victory over stubborn Northwestern, established itself as a leading candidate for the Rose Bowl. (Michigan State is ineligible as last year's winner.) Penn State, throttling Ohio State's vaunted ground...