Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other papers editorialized the same way, not only in France, but in Belgium, Switzerland and, to a lesser degree, in The Netherlands. Their common sentiment: the vast majority of people feel an angry urge to be rid of war scares; they hope for a renewed conciliatory gesture...
...Haya had lingered much longer in Peru he might have faced a common murder charge. Two years ago Rightist Publisher Francisco Graña had been shot down as he left his Lima office. Rightists laid the murder to the Apristas, then riding high in cabinet and Congress. Aprista denials were none too convincing; soon the party was on the run before the rightist barrage. Last October APRA was outlawed. Three weeks later, General Manuel Odria seized the government, ordered the immediate trial of seven Apristas who had been indicted for Grana's murder. When the trial opened last...
...muddles," and a fluffy, conceited little lamb, privately described by Annette as "possibly a bit of a bitch, but so young it doesn't matter." Other supporting players are Oswald the Ostrich, Willie the Worm, Sally the Seal, Peter the Pup, Poppy the Parrot, and two "rather common" field mice named Morris and Doris...
Weinstock wondered: What is a Jew? What did this horde of people have in common that caused them to be persecuted together? Nothing, he decided; their persecution was a historical accident. "Jews are not born, but made," he concluded. "Everyone who runs, who disobeys, who prefers living to obeying...
Some of his crispest observations are leveled at the political nature of the Greek people. Writes Lancaster: "In a country where everyone from the shoeshine boy ... to the cotton millionaire . . . regards himself, quite rightly, as uncommon and unique, the coming of the century of the common man is likely to be indefinitely postponed...