Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those predisposed to believe that any person who bugs white subway riders deserves nothing less than to have a few quick bullet shots sent in his general direction, the jury's not guilty verdict was hailed, to borrow one tabloid's headline, as a "Triumph for Common Sense." For those secure in their belief that America will forever look the other way when a Black person stands at the point of a white person's gun, the decision was but one more instance of the legal system's endemic racism...
...easier for us to see a closed society than it is for those who live in a closed society to understand what an open society is all about. I don't think you always have to agree with the person you are negotiating with. What you need is a common interest. And it is a common interest between the free world and the unfree world that the two shall never come into warlike conflict...
...have lumped together pictures of persons convicted of serious crimes, persons on trial, persons under indictment, persons under investigation and persons against whom "allegations" have been made. What ever happened to the common-law presumption that someone is innocent until proved guilty...
...time. Speaking in Gdansk from a giant outdoor altar built in the stylized form of a wooden sailing vessel, the Pontiff not only talked about Solidarity but pleaded with his audience to continue abiding by the principles of the banned organization. "Let this day be the day of our common prayer for work and solidarity," he said in ringing tones. "I pray every day for the working people and the specific heritage of Polish solidarity...
...then more effectively at Britain's National Theater in 1985, the pastor seemed a humbug, professing affection for an old friend while ruthlessly trying to have his way. In Charleston, Fugard directed and also played the pastor. He found great sympathy in the man and showed compassion for the common throng's yearning -- in this or any society -- for ritual pieties as an alternative to reason...