Word: commoner
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...uniqueness by contrast. The business of prostitution offers the trappings of emotions without the genuine article, and perhaps it has endured for the reason that it touches all parts of the body but the heart. The practice of hiring substitute soldiers to take one's place in the military, common to the armies of Napoleon, Washington and the Czars, theoretically involved a transfer of patriotism. But patriotism proved untransferable. Ranks were filled with the poor who needed the pay or mere mercenaries, not citizens inspired with love of country. Armies suffered; the practice stopped...
When Lieut. Colonel Oliver North sat down at his computer terminal to compose memos to his superiors at the National Security Council, he made a common assumption. He thought his electronic missives -- relaying confidential details of the ill-fated Iran-contra deal -- were more secure than messages sent by post or by telephone. The magnitude of that error now confronts him in bookstore windows around the country. For not only have hundreds of those potentially incriminating messages been recovered by federal investigators but they also are available to all, in published copies of the Tower commission report...
...depression marker on chromosome 11. The discoveries of two separate genetic defects that can lead to the same disease "aren't necessarily contradictory but complement each other," says Dr. Miron Baron, who headed the team. "Together they support the belief that manic depression is a group of disorders with common symptoms rather than a single entity...
...caused by a toxin-producing strain of the common bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus, carried benignly in the respiratory and genital tracts of perhaps one out of three people. Under certain conditions -- a wound, some infections, the presence of a tampon or contraceptive sponge -- the bacteria multiply. If the toxin-producing strain is present, such proliferation can lead to TSS. The symptoms are dramatic and develop quickly: high fever, a sunburn-like rash, severe vomiting and diarrhea, culminating in shock, in which blood pressure plummets and circulation deteriorates. Doctors usually try to head off this life-threatening condition by administering intravenous fluids...
...inquisitorial rigor of a full-scale news conference. As the hour drew close, one TV commentator likened the atmosphere to the tension before a Super Bowl kickoff. Then the President strode into the East Room of the White House and put on the kind of performance that is common enough in a real Super Bowl but quite rare for Reagan. He triumphed, as Republican Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming approvingly put it, by being "dull...