Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began indiscriminate mass bombing in an attempt to break British morale, this charge is patently false. In the matter of General Sikorski's plane-crash death, no convincing proof is proffered that Churchill had a hand in it. It is a tenuous personal speculation indicative only of a common European fascination with conspiratorial-plot theories of history. One cut above a crank and several cuts below a thinker, Hochhuth seems very much like those dedicated slaphappy few who insist that Bacon wrote Shakespeare...
...picture. Cummins now sells most of the diesel-engine output of its British plant in the U.S., while all of RCA's tape recorders and 80% of General Electric loudspeakers are made in Japan. Other advantages of U.S. industry are gradually fading. The growth of the Common Market, for example, gives the world another region where economies of size are possible. To make matters worse, complains Chairman George Moore of Manhattan's First National City Bank, "too few people are interested in exporting. The world has a hell of a time buying American products...
...Japan, Canada, the Common Market Six and all eight members of the European Free Trade Association...
Father Hillman finds no difficulty in the Biblical injunction (Genesis 2:24): "Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife and they become one flesh." Polygamy was common among the ancient Jews, he points out, and in the marriage laws of Moses, the word wife "is used regularly with reference to marriage cases which may be either polygamous or monogamous." Nor does polygamy violate the concept of "one flesh." Just as "the several children of one mother may be regarded as 'one flesh' with her by reason of their unity in generation...
...room. He then goes on to bully his fellow speakers with arrogant bluster and to bawdy his audience with testy obscenity-for which he offers a spirited defense. He uses it to wake up people, he claims. Besides, he discovered in the Army that it is the common man's humor and, in a way, the voice of his history ("the truth of the way it really felt over the years passed on a river of obscenity...