Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department told it, Missouri-born Russell A. Langelle, 37, security officer in charge of the Marine guards at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, rode city bus No. 107 to work as usual one chilly morning last week, got off about 9 o'clock at the corner of Chaikovskovo Street and Vorovskovo Street, a block from his office. Suddenly, in the very best Eric Ambler fashion, five civilianclad men closed in around him, efficiently pinned his arms, covered his mouth, hauled him into a nearby alley where waited a Zim, the Buick-copied car used by junior Red officials...
...virtues." The Guardian's Eric Newton likes the way "his gluttonous eye devours his surroundings in huge optical mouthfuls, and his restless, untiring hand transfers them to canvas with the garrulous enthusiasm of a born raconteur." Critics applauded the latest addition to Bratby's usual drab cast of bohemian friends and family-Brigitte Bardot. Bratby claims no speaking acquaintance, picked her out of a magazine one day when a model failed to show. Of Bratby's current Bardot pictures, Critic Newton noted: "He has not yet begun (and perhaps he never will begin) to learn...
Light in the Darkness. Nurserymen have known since 1920 that certain plants could be made to bloom earlier than usual by shading them with opaque cloth for part of each day. Guess was that something in the plant's internal mechanism recorded the smaller amount of sunlight, signaled the plant that the days had shortened, that colder weather was approaching, and that it had better flower fast. But botanists were unable to identify the day-measuring mechanism or explain how it worked...
...reader sometimes has trouble telling what the ad is about. What they do have is fun, an aged-in-the-wood humor that tickles readers and rings up billings of $1,000,000 a year from clients who give them some 20% of the gross, compared to the usual agency fee of about 15%. Says bearded Joe Weiner: "People don't read ads. They read what interests them...
Before the next Dartmouth-Harvard game the usually, happy-go-lucky, play-for-anybody Band plunged itself into controversy by announcing that it would not salute the Dartmouth team with the usual medley because of "the interruption to our medley last year." After word of this cold shoulder, adverse response from both Dartmouth and Harvard alumni was so great that the Band reversed its field and decided to play for the visitors...