Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...genuinely intended to help the Middle Eastern nations to preserve their independence and viability. With Saudi Arabia's King Saud shifting his considerable weight to the side of his fellow kings in Iraq and Jordan, the four Moslem pact countries suddenly found that they could safely reassert their common concern against the Communist threat and their membership in a useful instrumentality that did not compromise their independence...
Among the politicians themselves, in France's third week without a government, there emerged at last a desire to end the crisis. Politicians of the left and center, bickering among themselves, became aware of a common peril. By delaying the formation of a government, anti-European groups in the Assembly, ranging from Gaullists through tax-dodging Poujadists to Communists, hoped to postpone the scheduled June 14 ratification of the Common Market and Euratom treaties...
...made it clear that he thinks the U.S. should relinquish some of its control over Okinawa's civil administration. He has stoutly opposed both the U.S. and Russian refusal to halt H-bomb tests, but he has gone publicly and vigorously on record in favor of a common front against both Russian and Chinese Communism...
...Viruses so named because they were found in adenoids. They cause diseases intermediate in severity between the common cold and influenza...
...brother Hernand he ran a small sugar brokerage house in Puerto Rico, in 1914 launched his real career by buying a tiny telephone company. When Sosthenes returned from World War I as a U.S. lieutenant colonel (with a Distinguished Service Medal), the brothers Behn issued 50,000 shares of common stock at $68.50 a share, founded...