Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...digging teams" who collect scrap iron-and are supposed to turn in their own no-longer-needed kitchenware-"took away steel rods on public buildings, underground drainpipes and iron railings, and handed them over to the authorities as scrap iron." In Honan, it added, peasants complain bitterly about the common messhalls, which prevent them from having friends at home for dinner. In Hopei they worry about having no kitchens of their own or a brick oven to sleep on during the winter...
...diet. At 5 each morning, she and her husband were aroused for "mass sports" (i.e., calisthenics). Their only meal together with their two sons was breakfast. Her husband was sent off in one direction to work all day, she in another. They put their young sons in a common nursery (which charged for the privilege), and the children's 70-year-old grandmother worked on a "mending brigade." Among other conveniences at the commune was a common grave-a pool filled with a special chemical to help turn bodies into useful fertilizer...
...Savill found many short hairs of unequal length, some with frayed ends. Her conventional treatments-oil and massage-did no good, but when the patient switched to an old-fashioned boar-bristle brush, his hair grew out normally. Dr. Savill compared this with similar cases, found that the common villain was a nylon brush with bristles cut off square at the ends. Her most extreme case: a woman of 28 who was on the verge of suicide last year because of hair loss, was saved by a bristle brush. Nylon brushes with rounded bristle ends appear to do no harm...
...sanctity of the institution of marriage and the home shall be upheld. No film shall infer that casual or promiscuous sex relationships are the accepted or common thing...
...first 17 steelmakers in 1955, and the second-highest in 1956 and 1957, Granite City Steel's earnings dropped 38% in 1958's first half, partly because of the cost of its modernization program. But its earnings picture is once again favorable: third-quarter net per common share was $1.08, v. 75? a year ago, with sales of $88.7 million so far this year running about 6% under 1957. When its modernization program is finished, the company sees an even brighter earnings picture that may again restore its first rank...