Word: commoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...having a relationship with a woman other than his wife is all that significant." Most editors agree that news judgments must be made on a case-by-case basis. Says Bill German, managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle: "I try to measure these stories by the everyday and common standards. Are they correct, pertinent, newsy and fair...
...neurofibromatosis, a terrifying and, so far, incurable neurological disorder usually accompanied by varying degrees of deformity. Though most Americans had not heard of it before the Dallas episodes, or before The Elephant Man, a play about Merrick, opened in New York City this year, the ailment is surprisingly common; in the U.S., it affects some 100,000 people...
...come, they were expected to keep their opinions to themselves; if they discussed them in public or attempted to act upon them, they were exiled; if they persisted in returning, they were cast out again; if they still came back, as did four Quakers, they were hanged on Boston Common. And from the Puritan point of view, it was good riddance. Perry Miller and Thomas H. Johnson, The Puritans...
McGill said that Horner, like Commission member and founding director of Common Cause John Gardner, was chosen because her "scholarly background will be extremely helpful...
...demonstrators walked into the Leverett House Junior Common Room chanting "Don't Sell Out" and "No Tokens," as a Chase representative talked to a small number of minority students...