Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been clear from the first. "I thought even all the preachers in the country had heard about it," he cracked. One aim was to preserve U.S. security, another was to honor a commitment. "In 1954 we said we would stand with those people in the face of common danger. The time came when we had to put up or shut up. We put up." A third goal was to resist aggression: "If you saw a little child in this room and some big bully came along and grabbed it by the hair and started stomping it, I think...
...last devalued the pound in 1949 (from $4.03 to $2.80), 23 nations followed by devaluing their own currencies. This time, several countries-Ireland, Denmark, and Israel-almost immediately followed Britain's move by devaluing, and others are sure to follow this week, particularly within the British Commonwealth. The Common Market countries immediately decided not to follow Britain's lead, and the U.S. lost no time in announcing that it has no intention of devaluing the dollar. In a White House statement, President Johnson said that he could "reaffirm unequivocally the commitment of the U.S. to buy and sell...
...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court took a significant and courageous step last week in striking down four ancient laws of the Common-wealth--specifically statutes making it a crime to be a vagrant, a tramp, a vagabond, or a suspicious person abroad in the nighttime and unable to give a satisfactory account of himself. They were laws not often enforced, but it was precisely their erratic and necessarily arbitrary application that made them dangerous...
...common features characterized the four laws. First, they sought to punish a person for his status rather than his actions: a vagrant or tramp is almost by definition a poor person. Second, they left inordinate discretionary authority with the police: each of the four statutes served as a kind of elastic clause in the absence of specific criminal charges. Each could also be used, theoretically, in organized dragnets launched against whole classes of people. The Cambridge City Administration actually threatened to use the vagrancy laws against local hippies, and might even have gone ahead with this threat except...
Those artful, common, indulgent others...