Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cause of this stormy marathon was, as usual, France's most divisive topic: Algeria. When a French Premier wants to take a necessary but unpopular step, he usually waits until the French Assembly is in recess so that he cannot be thrown out of office immediately. But the right-wingers in his Cabinet, who oppose any concessions in Algeria, were committed to quit in a body if Gaillard misstepped, and thus even in parliamentary recess his hands were tied...
Dick MacKinnon will be at his usual spot guarding the goal but the ranks of the defensemen in front of him will be somewhat depleted by injury. In addition to Bob Fallon who suffered a serious eye injury. Dan Leary will be out for the next few games with an ankle sprain. Starting at defense wil probably be Captain Jim Herscot, John Baldwin, and Bob Shaunessy...
...crowd of 300 journalists, art lovers and notables waited in a school courtyard in the small French Riviera town of Vallauris. The master, as usual unimpressed by ceremony, arrived dressed in faded corduroy pants, yellow shirt and bright orange scarf. Pablo Picasso bussed his good friend, Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, on both cheeks, then shook hands with Director of French Museums Georges Salles, down from Paris for the occasion -the unveiling of Picasso's much heralded 32-by-29-ft. mural for UNESCO's new Paris headquarters. Picasso yanked the cord, pulling back the concealing curtain. The result...
...British Medical Journal: a man of 24 had lost part of his right foot in an accident; to help repair the damage, skin was to be grafted in two stages-first from his abdomen to his left forearm, then to the foot. The surgeons feared that the usual plaster casts might create sores and painful stiffness in the joints and make them useless for weeks...
...self-congratulatory show on NBC-TV last week, and for the first time since 1952 the moviemakers picked up their own $850,000 tab. Biggest novelty: no commercials-unless the entire 105 minutes could be classed as one long plug for Hollywood. The show itself was faster paced than usual and was jampacked with world-famed faces, costly dresses, big names and little stretches of boredom. Full of arsenic and old spice on its big night of the year, Hollywood displayed carefree willingness to crack playful jokes about...