Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wash of several other planes. Nancy's hat was imperiled, her skirt began to balloon. Says she: "Just as I grabbed for the hat with one hand and for the skirt with the other, an eager, friendly crowd swarmed up to greet us. Someone thrust at me the usual welcoming bouquet, which I, not being endowed with three hands, frantically considered gripping with my teeth. Estes, pumping away with both fists, looked over at me, a little annoyed. Above the hubbub of wind, propellers and introductions, he called out, 'Honey, why can't you shake hands with...
...Kefauver faced a mob scene sufficient to warm any politician's heart. As they prepared to meet the crowd, someone remarked that it was a greater throng than the one that recently met Rock-'n'-Roll Star Elvis Presley. "Who," asked Stevenson, "is Elvis Presley?" As usual, Estes Kefauver was right on hand to help fill Stevenson's fund of commoner knowledge. Elvis the Pelvis, he said, was "a fine boy" from Tennessee...
...against an equivalent sum in Egyptian pounds, and Nasser and his Finance Minister talked long with Russian Ambassador Kiselev about more help from the Soviet bloc. The No. i problem: paying for the 600,000 tons of wheat Egypt must import in the next nine months. Buying it as usual on the world market would use up $47 million, or half of all Egypt's unblocked dollar assets. Last week, for a starter, the government arranged to buy 100,000 tons of Syrian wheat with Egyptian pounds...
...usual, is lagging behind in the innocence-cum-diabolism department, but there are signs of progress. Somewhat out of this class, both by virtue of her advanced years (22) and the intense seriousness of her subject matter, is Lucy Daniels (see below). While less concerned with sex than social conscience, her fine novel nevertheless manages to include hints of miscegenation as well as murder...
Except for these mild missteps, Bus Stop is neatly paced and satisfying. Actress Monroe, robbed of her usual glamour by bleached makeup and unmoistened lips, still generates enough sex to console the nation's Venus-worshipers, and her comedy turns stand up well against the broad playing of Don Murray and the smooth professionalism of Betty Field and Eileen Heckart...