Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foreign Secretary, undertook to define it-with help from Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King (William Lyon Mackenzie's grandson). Lord Balfour's report called the Commonwealth "autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another," and united "by a common allegiance to the Crown," as head of the Commonwealth. The 1931 Statute of Westminster removed from Britain the right to withhold consent to laws passed by Dominion Parliaments...
...Commonwealth" and ended with a declaration of unity by the "free and equal members of the Commonwealth." It was no accident that the adjective "British" vanished in transit. Lester ("Mike") Pearson, then Canada's External Affairs chief, recalls: "It was the British genius for evasion or compromise or common sense, whatever you wish to call it. Neither name satisfied everyone there, so both were used. It is now officially and in daily talk-at least in Canada-just 'the Commonwealth...
...commander. Last week President Eisenhower delivered three speeches in two days, consulted with Administration and military leaders on the problems of U.S. continental air defense, conferred with NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe Lauris Norstad (see FOREIGN NEWS), with the visiting chiefs of Western Europe's Common Market, its Coal and Steel Community and its Atomic Energy Community, had a nonpolitical chat with New York's visiting Governor Nelson Rockefeller, rounded it all off with 54 holes of weekend golf at Gettysburg...
Carrying picks, mattocks and hoes, some 3,000 peasants poured into Marigliano's marketplace Monday morning for Operazione Taratufo (Operation Spud), as the Communists called it. Many waved crude signs denouncing the Italian government and the European Common Market. Communist agitators in the crowd also put the blame on U.S. President Eisenhower (on the ungrounded thesis that U.S. wheat shipments for needy Italian children had undermined the potato market). Actually, low prices were the result of a local surplus, panicky farmers' hasty dumping on the market, and above all, the tight squeeze of the Camorra, the middlemen-racketeers...
...strokes-accidents in the brain's blood supply-are only less common than heart attacks, and can cause more severe crippling. Dr. DeBakey tackled these, installed artery grafts in cases where the blood stoppage had occurred at an accessible site below the skull (TIME...