Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kansas State Board of Health thinks the "common" cup is dangerous to health [May 19], then why the longevity of priests who must consume the remainder of the wine after the people have finished communicating, thus taking most of the "danger" upon themselves? Priests are notoriously long-lived. The Holy Spirit is immune to bacteria. Christianity can, has, and will beat a sanitarian...
...international bankruptcy was the remains (about $500 million) of the $650 million in foreign loans which the Gaillard government negotiated in Washington last January. Only by restricting its imports could France hope to regain solvency, and such action threatened to delay the creation of the six-nation Western Europe Common Market...
...investors might force a market break. But in all the recent sharp market breaks, the funds have bought, not sold, and thus given stability to the market. Recently the funds, thinking the market too high, were cautious about buying; of the 15 largest funds, twelve reduced their percentage of common-stock holdings in the first quarter...
Besides the resources that Iraq's oil and river-bottom lands will bring to the new Federation, it will have advantages of common frontiers and racial ties that Nasser's union conspicuously lacks. But Iraq is not keen to share its wealth with barren Jordan, and the Federation has been slow getting started. Iraq's King Feisal, 23, and his cousin Hussein. 22, of Jordan will both keep their crowns and the federal Parliament and Cabinet, controlling foreign and defense policies, will meet alternately in Baghdad and Amman. Still to be worked out: whether Iraq, which...
...fuzzily worded amnesty law forgives all political or labor offenses and any common crimes when "committed with political or labor intention." The fact that Nelly belonged to Perón's pampered Union of High School Students and met him on one of his visits to a girls' school is the affair's single, remote connection with politics...