Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most clamor for De Gaulle, it is significant that his appeal has always cut across party lines (except among the Communists). When France's allies consider what direction France might now take, they would prefer most the continued existence of the present regime, if roused by the common peril it resolved its differences. Otherwise London and Washington would prefer a De Gaulle who took power constitutionally* to 1) a popular front in which the Communists took part or 2) a military rule responding to mob appeal...
Attitudes. An Alsace man through and through, Pflimlin ardently championed the European Common Market, won an international reputation as the author of the "green pool" plan, which he hoped would do for agriculture what the Schuman Plan (also sponsored by an Alsatian) had done for the European coal and steel industry. Though his party played a prominent part in the overthrow of Premier Mendes-France who tried to ease French policy in North Africa, Pflimlin himself is regarded by the right as much too liberal, is called "the Mendes-France who goes to Mass." He was one of a group...
Marquis of Queensberry rules, or the letter of the law. Their most common offenses: simple assault, breaking and entering, petty larceny. The most conspicuous sleuth programs...
...security," Carson said, "is based on many considerations -our military posture, our overall economic and political strength, and our relationships with our friends and neighbors with whom we share a common danger. As administrator of the program it is my job to limit crude-oil imports in the interests of national security. My efforts are not, should not, and cannot be devoted to protection of the markets and profits of any individual. Nor can this be the function of the Federal Government in this highly complex field of crude-oil imports...
...spivishly freewheeling enterprise called "the scrap iron lark," which nets him a 600% profit, a margin Pop regards as "perfick." Spacious, sportive Ma Larkin furnishes a groaning bed and board, fills her voluminous pink nylon nighties like two nudes by Rubens. Wed only in the sight of the common law. Ma and Pop have six children, only one of whom causes them a smidgen of concern...