Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dominated the German scene, and has ruled with moderation and rigidity. He has been a staunch internationalist and has stressed the need for a firm Franco-German reconciliation. For better or worse this policy has borne fruit; France and Germany, linked institutionally in the Common Market, maintain also a tight policy alliance within NATO, and today appear as the chief exponents of rigidity vis-a-vis Anglo-American "flexibility...
...sidelines waiting for the big board to settle down. Buyers rallied to International Business Machines after President Thomas J. Watson announced a 3-for-2 split and an increased dividend; they bid for Ford after Ford Foundation successfully sold an additional 2,000,000 shares of Ford common without trouble. At the same time, such speculative favorites as General Development and Universal Controls (TIME, March 30) ran into waves of selling, were sporadically held off the market when trading volume on the American Stock Exchange got too great...
...author's odd conclusion is perhaps colored by the fact that Perry Madoc is all girl, and a parson's daughter. Anne Humphreys by name, she is a fortyish Welsh woman, chose the house of Collins as her English publisher "because you publish the Book of Common Prayer...
...avaricious King Midas, who nearly starved to death because everything he touched became gleaming metal, to the phenomenon of the U.S. Government's solemnly mining gold dug from the earth, only to bury it again at Fort Knox. Government red tape is a fertile field for the common, or garden, variety of stupidity. In Britain a professional man applied for gasoline coupons and got them with the warning that his car could be used only to take him to his place of business and that "the return to your residence must be made by public transport...
Originated by the Student Council last October, the Harvard-Columbia Conference on Education will meet at least once a year in the future, bringing together undergraduates of leading Eastern colleges to discuss common problems...