Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final blackball, but it was the closest thing to it. Assembled in Luxembourg's new 23-story Centre Européen were the members of the Common Market's Council of Ministers, ready for the first official talks on Britain's application for membership. Many feared that France might deliver the coup de gráce right then and there, ending Britain's hopes of gaining entry any time in the near future. What came was a glancing blow that was calculated to prove just as fatal...
France's five Common Market partners-all of whom publicly support British membership-tried unsuccessfully to soften the French position, but they failed. Flying to London for three days of talks with Prime Minister Wilson, West Germany's Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger offered little solace. "It would be no use banging the table," he said. "Anyone who knows President de Gaulle will understand that this would produce the opposite effect. The only way is to try to convince the French by intellectual arguments, and hope that the overwhelming weight of European public opinion will make them change their...
Sometimes Buckley caters to the repressive streak common to many U.S. conservatives. During his campaign for mayor of New York in 1965, he gave a speech to the police telling them how much they had been maligned by the press. Heavily criticized for his jocular references to questionable police practices, he did not back down a bit. "The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs," he said testily. "I suppose they will have to use poison...
Since the Patriarch has no jurisdictional authority over most of Orthodoxy's autonomous branches, the meeting could not in itself produce any decision that might lead to union between the two churches. Nonetheless, Pope and Patriarch twice spoke with each other about such common problems as secularization, peace and war for more than an hour-the longest length of time they have had together. Once again, the two churchmen made it clear that they are uncommonly eager for unity...
Although public statements from other schools of the University are common, in the Business School such widespread political involvement is practically unheard of, according to a spokesman for the group...