Word: usual
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...Schiavo case is wrong," said Congressman Barney Frank, one of the few Democrats willing to speak about the case. "Procedurally, there was a great deal of due process." Frank was right, but it was a curiously sterile pronouncement, bereft of the Congressman's usual raucous humanity. It exemplified the Democratic Party's recent overdependence on legal process, a culture of law that has supplanted legislative consideration of vexing social issues. This is democracy once removed...
...says. "I'm still not ready to defend it or analyze it or anything, but I have become moved by it, fascinated by it and helped by it--and I'm not even sure what it is. But I am humming with reverence and going at it in my usual full-bore...
...says. "I'm still not ready to defend it or analyze it or anything, but I have become moved by it, fascinated by it and helped by it-and I'm not even sure what it is. But I am humming with reverence and going at it in my usual full-bore...
...favorites are moments of nonrecognition. A few years ago, I was on a plane with a cello. She gets the window seat, and I'm scrunched up in the middle next to a large man asking the usual questions--"Do you play professionally?"--and finally he says, "What's your name?" I say, "Yo-Yo Ma." "Not possible. I know who that is, and Yo-Yo Ma is a woman." I took out my driver's license to show him. I still don't think he believed...
...Teddy would always get such a kick out of shooting the puck high on the regular goalies and even the usual goalies,” MacDonald says. “He just thought that was the funniest thing going. He’d always be shooting at the goalies. I think Chuckie Hughes could tell about 40 stories about Teddy hitting him in the head with the puck...