Word: commoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Willem, influenced by the less strident opinions of his mother's family, began veering leftward while editing a Calvinist monthly, Word and Deed, in the mid-1950s. "I gained this insight that apartheid is not a just dispensation, not a solution for South Africa, not founded in morality, not common sense," he recalls. He began speaking out against such National Party measures for entrenching apartheid as the Group Areas Act, the Population Registration Act and the move to give blacks voting rights in so-called black homelands rather than in South Africa proper. He has committed what many Afrikaners consider...
...Saturday, they'll come as individuals. But for one morning they'll become a Movement, drowning Washington in a common voice...
Burglaries in the residential neigborhood near Cambridge Common have jumped from an average of 10.5 per month in 1988 to 18.5 per month the first half of this year, according to reports in the Cambridge...
...whole care") students. From Monday through Saturday, with the exception of Wednesday evenings, a quan tuo student lives at his school around the clock, a situation no one seems to think the least bit odd. For despite filial devotion and the supposed centrality of family life, long separation is common in China. It is not rare for spouses to work in different cities and see each other infrequently. Similarly, far from signaling neglect, paying to deposit a three-year-old in another's care for a week away from home is often taken as a sign of affluence. In fact...
...most common cause of dementia in the elderly, Alzheimer's killed some 100,000 Americans last year and afflicts 2.5 million with what has been called the death of the mind. Symptoms include severe loss of memory and personality changes that range from angry outbursts to withdrawal and depression. Diagnosis -- at best tentative -- has been possible only through a process of eliminating other brain ailments that could cause similar symptoms...