Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tension was high in the area for hours after the incident, while people continued to mill around and policemen to shout orders and race motorcycles. One "straight" youth remarked "Either we'll get the Common back or there'll be a curfew in the whole city...
...third consecutive night since Mayor White imposed a 10 p.m. curfew on the Boston Common, large numbers of police were called in last night to disperse crowds numbering in the thousands...
Unlike the previous night's incidents, however, no disturbance preceded the police action and very few people actually violated the curfew. The major part of the crowd filled the streets and sidewalks adjacent to the Common near the Charles Street entrance, and did not attempt to enter the Common...
...Summer School is different in other ways. It is more rigidly run than the academic year is: it has strict rules against men visiting girls' rooms and vice versa, although this year for the first time visitors will be permitted in certain common rooms. Women in dorms have early curfews. There is a social director to plan and sponsor group activities, something which wouldn't make sense for the fragmented Harvard community during the year. Many of these changes are necessary because of the nature of a summer school. In any case, they make Harvard a different place during...
...jazz that have passed into respectable everyday language. Having come to prominence through such recordings as Aretha's and Mitch Ryder's, "Sock it to me" is now used in a neutral sense as a catch-phrase on TV's Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In and is a common sight on bumper stickers and even political placards. Jazz (originally a copulative verb) and rock 'n' roll (from a blues lyric, "My baby rocks me with a steady roll") are other examples...