Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mood of the convention changed. The Legion's high command hastily redrafted its resolution. In the final, milder version, there was no criticism of Ike, and the Legion merely "counseled" the U.S. public to be alert, accepting "the Russian Premier's visit with that dignity common only to free men while holding fast to the thought and determination there will be no compromise . . ." After approving the resolution by acclamation, the Legion proceeded to elect its new national chairman: Martin Boswell McKneally, 44, a bachelor lawyer from Newburgh, N.Y. and World War II major...
Communist Curtain. Amana's ex-peasants practiced a non-Marxist communism, holding all property in common because possessions foster false pride. Bearded church elders dictated every man's job, had the women cook for all in big communal kitchens, punished any show of vanity, such as wearing "world clothes" rather than modest calico...
Already things had threatened to get out of hand. The Norwegian press snorted at U.S. rhapsodies about the "Cinderella" marriage, testily pointed out that Anne-Marie's brief stint as a U.S. housemaid (one year) was common European practice for well-brought-up girls, who often serve au pair* in a foreign country. Anne-Marie should not even be called a poor girl, protested one paper, because "everybody is poor in comparison with the Rockefellers...
...shrug off." Fact is that, although Fleet Street may exaggerate popular emotions, it has a good nose for what they are. No one could doubt that ordinary Englishmen nodded in agreement when the Daily Herald, in a moment of candor, stated: "Between [De Gaulle and Adenauer] there is a common bond: a determination to cut down Britain's influence on the Continent...
...think you're smarter than Freud?" he asks Showgirl Debbie Reynolds, who thinks she is - almost. In the first days of their marriage she gets the notion in her orange-rinsed head that sex clouds her judgment. "The trouble with us is the only thing we have in common is this physical attraction," she explains. In order to assure herself that her bridegroom is not slouching around her boudoir "for the wrong reason," Debbie decrees that there will be no beddingdown together for one month. The spurned husband takes three cold showers a day, and the newlyweds fill...