Word: commoner
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BOSTON--The Boston Archdiocese yesterday announced it will finance the construction of a $150,000 platform and altar that Pope John Paul II will use in an outdoor mass on the Boston Common...
Given the relatively poor quality of surveying instruments used in 1774 and the common practice of basing astronomical observations on the moons of Jupiter rather than the star Polaris, it is amazing that the boundary between Derby Line, Vt., and Rock Island, Que., is as close to the "true" 45th parallel of latitude as is the case...
...catchers, trapping the knuckleball can be torture. Passed balls and wild pitches are common; stealing is easy because the catcher is busy netting a butterfly. Rare indeed is the knuckleball catcher who makes it through a season without injury: last month Braves Catcher Bruce Benedict dislocated a finger pursuing one of Phil's pitches and Houston's Alan Ashby is now out of the lineup with a finger fractured by one of Joe's floaters. Ashby's catching technique when Niekro is on the mound: "You just get in front of the ball and pray...
...host at the service, Cardinal Cooke, was more cautious, perhaps to assure traditional Catholics who had come into the church to light candles at the side altars. No syncretistic one-world religion was in the making, the soft-spoken Cardinal noted, but believers in different creeds can seek "common ground" and "make each other welcome" in their houses of worship...
...pope plans to arrive in Boston the afternoon of Oct. 1, say a Mass on Boston Common, spend the night in the city, and leave for New York the next...