Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...European nations (France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg) have set out to create a common market that will whittle away tariffs among themselves and build up joint tariff fences against outside countries. Unless it strives to work out tariff-paring agreements with this community-in-the-making, the U.S. will find itself fenced out of a market that now buys 17% of the U.S.'s total exports...
Khrushchev is a drunkard, a braggart, an atheist, a liar and a barbarian. Where is your sense of common decency and morality...
...modern conveniences that we have today." But the scientist, said another, "does not need to be a genius. Albert Einstein had a very low IQ." Snorted still another pupil: "I don't think he has to be so brilliant he doesn't have any common sense...
ROBERT R. YOUNG has slashed his holdings in his Alleghany Corp. and New York Central Railroad. After quietly selling all but 28,500 shares of Central common (TIME, Dec. 23), Young sold 27,300 of his remaining shares last month to take tax loss of more than $100,000, is left with only 1,200 shares, worth about $20,000. He also sold 30,000 shares of Alleghany, is left with only 17 common shades, but still holds big block of preferred...
...dormitory, which has not yet been renamed, will have only singles rooms, with one bathroom for each group of three singles. The five-floor building already has a lounge and reception room on the first floor, and the basement dining room will be converted into game and common rooms...