Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign on the same theme, "the record of the Republican Administration in Washington." He was quickly established the favorite over Democratic Primary Winner William Proxmire, 41, who has also run three times for governor and has thrice been beaten (twice by Kohler). Reason: Yaleman Proxmire, who preserves the common touch by staying in $2.50 hotel rooms and writing speeches on a typewriter in the back of his Chevrolet campaign car, is also classed in Wisconsin among the political sideshows...
...four-power "working paper" presented in person by John Foster Dulles, far from being just another facile essay in the propaganda of cold war, represented an imaginative and intricate effort to formulate-under the common theme of safeguarding against surprise attack-a program taking careful account of all the multiplicity of national interests of the U.S. and its allies, and of the Soviet Union...
...working to remove obstacles" suggested that obstacles are still there. Obviously, Tito is not lightly going to surrender any of his nine-year-old independence; just as obviously, he is still a Communist. There was perhaps a smidgin of truth in a Russian commentator's remark: "The common objectives and tasks of our two countries are greater than our differences...
...ruler will be Tuanku Abdul Rahman, of the Malayan state of Negri Sembilan. This is sure to cause endless confusion, because the present Chief Minister of the Federation of Malaya is also named Abdul Rahman, and will continue in office as Prime Minister after independence. The name is a common one in Malaya, and they are not related. When both were law students in London, friends had difficulty with their honorifics-the newly elected Paramount Ruler is Tuanku (applied only to rulers and sometimes their eldest sons), while the present Chief Minister is Tengku, which means a royal prince...
...troubles: as late as 10 a.m. on the day of execution, he could not find a qualified executioner. Thirty-eight army sergeants, offered ?100 and rapid army advancement, turned down the job. Said one: "I would not do it for all the City of London." Even the common hangman refused, although he was first offered a ?200 bonus and then threatened with death by burning. It is still not known who did the job, so heavily covered were the headsman and his assistant. To William Juxon, the Church of England's Bishop of London (and future Archbishop of Canterbury...