Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They have descended to vicious mudslinging. Abraham Lincoln was once described as "a horrid-looking wretch . . . sooty and scoundrelly in aspect, a cross between the nutmeg dealer, the horse swapper and the night man." Andrew Jackson's mother was accused of being "a common prostitute, brought to this country by British soldiers...
...common-or-garden Pullman, still standard equipment for overnight travel, the seasoned traveler knows that he will go to bed when the porter chooses to make up his berth-no sooner and not much later. He masters the special technique required for undressing in a Pullman berth: a brand of gymnastics which would do credit to a graduate student of yoga. He knows that the car's oddities of ventilation make it the only place outside the malarial zones where a man can get a chill and a sweat at the same time. The experienced take these rituals...
...Gimo, echoing his racket-busting son, Ching-kuo (TIME, Sept. 20), "is a revolutionary social movement . . . Its mission is to check the tendency to extremes of wealth and poverty. Eventually life at the front will move downward to the soldiers' level and life in the rear to the common people's level...
...Topping three days after Topping's divorce, was formally reproved by his elders. The rebuke, read aloud to him as he stood with head bowed, accused him of having "brought reproaches upon your Christian profession," and warned him to "be more watchful" in future of "the common evil of the remarriage of divorced persons...
Sights like the above, where Howie Houston is delivering the key block, may be common in the Stadium this fall. Valpey, who said Howie could have played first-string for Michigan last fall, plans to use the 195-pound tackle as a running guard on offense this year. A 22-year-old Junior, Houston has been included in several preseason all-American listings...