Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Noting the increasing size of the CEEB, Coffman cited the long-standing need for tests that could identify competence while at the same time avoiding the assumption of a common curriculum among the varied types of schools whose students take the examinations...
...have just read your April 1 eye opener about France's barbarous activities in Algeria. It is disgusting that we are forced to ally ourselves with France against the free world's common enemy, Communism...
...disaffected overload on Jordan's desert economy. Another who bears responsibility is Egypt's Nasser, whose hate-filled Radio Cairo outpourings and political intrigue have inflamed the refugee-camp centers. In this chaotic situation, two Arab leaderships that mistrust each other -Iraq and Saudi Arabia-found common cause in trying to save the artificial kingdom of Jordan from falling to one of two enemies: either the Israelis outside or the Communists within...
...moment last week at a weed-grown point of their common border, Israelis and Jordanians pursued not war but justice. At issue was the identification of two scraggy black cows that had been stolen from a Jordanian Arab last February, taken into Israel and sold. The thief had been arrested by the Jordan police. After a complaint transmitted to Israel by the U.N. Mixed Armistice Commission, Israeli police found the stolen cows in a local barn and promptly arrested two Israeli Arabs for receiving stolen property. To give them a fair trial, the property had first to be identified...
...Modern Civilization." The conference was a success; some 150 students from 18 European, Asian and African countries attended the lectures and discussions, and as many as 1,000 spectators crowded into the priory on weekends. A visiting Catholic bishop sat on the floor and ate mutton from a common bowl with the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and a Moslem scholar, listened with a Jewish dignitary while tribesmen beat out Arab rhythms on goatskin tam-tams. "We saw that people living together for three weeks were quickly becoming friends," said Father Martin. "We learned how freely a Moslem and Christian...