Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congressman Otto Ernest Passman, wholesaler of restaurant equipment from Monroe, La., let his temper shoot up past the broiling point a while before dinner one day last week. The "wasters and spenders," he charged broadly, had leaked to reporters the news that his subcommittee was cutting even worse than usual upon this year's Administration proposals for foreign...
...Moslem quarters of Beirut and Tripoli, where their leaders tapped their telephone wires into neighbors' lines and regularly negotiated cease-fires with government forces by telephone. In Tripoli, most Moslem of Lebanese cities, after the week's roughest scrap (eight dead), the rebels as usual phoned a hospital in the government area to ask for an ambulance to fetch the wounded...
...What No. 10 needs, said the White Paper, is nothing less than a complete "structural overhaul" at a cost of at least ?400,000 ($1,120,000). Once again sensible men could say that the most economical course would be to tear the whole place down. But as usual, even sensible men will agree in the end that London would not really be London without the original, precarious and thoroughly beloved...
...usual, it is a joy to watch Miss Humphrey's lovely carriage and to listen to her crystal-clear diction. She knows how to say "fortyoon" instead of "fawchoon," and how to put the accent on the first syllable of "despicable," where it belongs...
...nature. For months U.S. policy had been influenced by the imponderable pressures of "world opinion" toward negotiated agreements with world Communism in general and toward a suspension of U.S. nuclear tests in particular, and in longings for a parley at the summit. Now that pressure was indefinitely postponed-as usual, at the cost of the lives of brave men. Said Secretary of State Dulles: "I still think it will be a little time before there is a summit conference, if indeed there...