Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual charge of corruption has come up during the campaign, especially in regard to the Department of Public Works. Specifically, the charge is that large sums of money were spent on rented power lawn-mowers--money that went to "dummy corporations" and other dubious sources...
...have strengthened the Shah's reforming hand in Iran. Last week, though the landlords of Iran are as numerous and as niggardly as ever in the national parliament and ministries, the Shah boldly cut off one of their most cherished privileges. Through the years, on top of their usual fat share of their tenants' crops, landlords have been accustomed to take "gifts" from their peasants of "cattle, lambs, chickens, eggs, marriage dues, fines for quarreling, and presents taken on the eve of festivals." Effective at once, the government of Iran ordered provincial governors and police...
Instead of the usual single control stick, the X-15 has three. One is designed to resist the multiplied weight of the pilot's hand or body when he is subjected to his plane's acceleration under the push of its rocket motor because of heavy G-load or because of its deceleration on slamming down into the atmosphere. But when the X-15 is on a ballistic trajectory above the atmosphere, with its engine cut off, the pilot will be weightless. He will then shift to a second stick that will give him better control in space...
...this latest Greene entertainment, the hero gets away with more than usual. He is Mr. Wormold, a middle-aged Englishman who has for years been the Havana representative of Phastkleaners, a vacuum-cleaner company. Just now he is pushing their new Atomic Pile Cleaner, and business is slow. Like many a Greene male, Wormold is physically unimpressive. He limps. His beautiful wife ran away with an American years before, leaving him with a beautiful daughter now 16. Without religious props himself, he is bringing up Milly as a strict Catholic just as he had promised her mother he would...
...truths has been awesome indeed, has perhaps even exceeded himself with the assertion that these low fellows are engaged in a plot that "strikes at the roots of the House system." And Master Finley, whose record in the field of verities also cannot be underestimated, has observed with his usual good humor that "one student told me he had a little more privacy but a lot less hot water...