Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Cooney Weiland's team was, as usual, well drilled in positioning, passing, and the other offensive skills which have made the varsity one of the most powerful teams in the East for the past four years, but when the puck was down near the B.C. goal, the Crimson just could not come up with a scoring combination...
Laurence Curtis '16, who defeated John L. Saltonstall by nearly 6,000 votes for the 10th District Congress seat, reviewed the campaign measures that kept him in office. "We just did the usual things harder," Curtis said, referring to television, radio, and newspaper publicity...
Doing S.R.O. business as usual, beanpole Piano Prodigy Van Cliburn, 24, wowed a packed throng in Kansas City, caused a scattering of academic shudders with his theories of musicianship ("If a performer has to sacrifice something, he should sacrifice the notes rather than the inspiration"), allowed that he had time to cultivate some home-grown corn: "Jazz is a kind of form, not difficult, that helps make the evaluation of classical music even higher. I play it myself to relax...
CHEAP NUCLEAR POWER is goal of 54 utilities that propose to build new type, 40,000 kw. reactor outside Philadelphia. It would be cooled by helium; method may well prove more economical than usual water cooling...
...usual in Tati's pictures, there is really no plot. On the one side, Tati lines up the protagonists of the gadget: a manufacturer of plastics, whose pride and joy is the cubistic chateau in which he spatially participates with a severely functional, ever-scrubbing wife, a discontented son who is obviously a round peg in a square hole, and a free-form dachshund. On the other side, Tati ranges the proponents of the casual life: Hulot himself, an awesomely inefficient employee of the department of sanitation, a big fat slob who sells vegetables from the back...