Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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leaving the Lowell House junior common room where
...after 10 years of dormancy, to hear the cases of 25 students involved in two divestment protests--a sit-in at the 17 Quincy St. headquarters of Harvard's governing Corporation and a blockade of South African General Consul Abe S. Hoppenstein in the Lowell House junior common room...
...Yeah, my three-room suite is a little cramped too," I said, "especially when my roommate isn't away on weekends. The couch and the chairs don't fit in the common room unless I move the coffee table...
ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION. This is the oldest and by far the most common of the techniques prohibited. The Instruction not only opposes the introduction into a womb of sperm from a "third party" donor other than the husband but rejects the use of a husband's sperm. The first condemnation of artificial insemination came in a 1949 speech by Pope Pius XII, but the teaching has been ignored by many Catholic couples and disputed by some theologians...
...Boorstin, the keen-minded Librarian of Congress who sits atop Capitol Hill and watches the drama below, talks about the "cleansing effect of Washington." The old city, given enough time, knocks common sense into cockeyed theories, rounds the corners of sharp practices, and finally forces almost every leader who is successful to heed the sound counsel of history...