Word: commonalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Preamble of the Constitution affirms that we are established "in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty." The Articles of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as the founding fathers saw it, provided the framework for the accomplishment of these purposes...
Something Done. After spending several weeks of detective work to trace the mysterious outbreak to its common source, the Moroccan government ap pealed to the International Red Cross for help. Moroccan police placed all cooking-oil stocks under their control, stopped sales of the poison stuff (and the spread of the paralysis) outside the Meknes area. They also jailed the 25 merchants. King Mohammed V, whose powers are unlimited by any parliamentary control, put out a royal edict decreeing death for "crimes against the health of the nation," and making the edict retroactive to cover the poison-oil case...
Normally the cowpokes on Warner Bros.' crowded TV range pursue their separate villains, but last week they all ganged up on a common enemy-Warner Bros. Encouraged by a withering denunciation of the studio by the Screen Actors Guild, the cowpokes drew a bead on 1) highhanded Studio Boss Jack L. Warner, who spends much of his time commuting between Las Vegas and the Riviera; and 2) William T. Orr, Warner's son-in-law and the studio's hard-driving TV chief. The cowboys' beef: the usual Warner Bros, contract, which binds screen hopefuls...
...Becoming a good teacher," said a veteran New York City public-school teacher, "has more in common with the process of becoming a good boxer or a combat soldier [than with medicine]. You do not have a subdued and cooperative patient; you have a mixed bag of restless unknown quantities in one room, no two of whom will react the same way. You get your brains knocked out a few times, and you get blown up several times. If you are a born teacher and not one fabricated by the professors of pedagogy, you become a first-class veteran, able...
...mutual fund and other investment company shareholders who indirectly own a piece of U.S. industry. Added to these are millions protected by corporate pension funds, which last year bought 30% of new stock issues. The United Mine Workers' welfare and retirement fund holds nearly $4,000.000 in common stocks, gets over $195,000 in dividends...