Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, the army did not follow up its advantage. At the height of the Tripoli barrage, Rebel Leader Kamal Jumblatt's Druse mountaineers launched a drive that took three villages overlooking Beirut itself. There, too, the army heaved into action with just enough heavy weapons to roll the rebels back to their old lines, prompting Chamoun to observe that the military situation was "leaning toward the government...
Teething Trouble. Sceptre and her crew stood up sturdily under the storm. "The Evaine is tuned up," explained one of the challenger's defenders. "The Sceptre has not had her full wardrobe of sails and has had the usual teething troubles with some of her gear." Special new winches had indeed not worked up to specifications; there were changes scheduled for the ship's elaborate rigging. More important, Sceptre's sleek, white bottom was fouled with assorted marine growth. Like the aspiring U.S. cup defenders, she was protected by hard, slippery synthetic paints, not with antifouling compounds...
...appear here in humility," he told his audience. "I made an excusable blunder-considering the circumstances that I was humiliated-of using my power for fractional, justifiable vindictiveness." As for Philco, "I will not tolerate any capricious whim, right or wrong (and I was right as usual), to deter my passionately loyal fans from purchasing this great product...
...mood of U.S. business last week was: "Wait for fall." Most businessmen felt that the slide was ended, but few looked for any immediate big pickup in the face of the usual summer shutdowns...
...Sorrell, 64, onetime skipper (retired since 1956) of the Queen Mary, who, during the New York tugboat strike of 1953, displayed his master seamanship by turning on the knuckle of Manhattan's Pier 90, bending his behemoth of the seas into her slip without the services of the usual flotilla of tugs; of a heart ailment; in Southampton, England...