Word: commonized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although windows in MacGregor House rooms have security locks that prevent them from being fully opened, MacGregor residents said Manley fell from an open common room window that was not protected. Residents said MIT officials had planned to install protective bars over such common room windows because of a suicide in a nearby building last March...
Heard the one about the common shampoo ingredient that causes cancer? Or how about the epidemic of blindness among toddlers who accidentally get waterproof sunscreen in their eyes? These absurd fictions used to be the stock-in-trade of ninth-graders bent on frightening the younger kids. But now such tall tales are appearing on the Internet, and many adults are taking them seriously...
DIED. EAMON COLLINS, 45, former I.R.A. intelligence officer and author of the 1997 I.R.A. expose Killing Rage; after being savagely beaten; in Newry, Northern Ireland. Collins, who grew disgusted with the organization, wrote that its violent tactics "isolated us from the people with whom we have most in common...
...public scrutiny hasn't been this intense since the first weeks of the scandal. Some of it isn't so bad. When she walked into a Los Angeles haunt, Lewinsky got a chorus of cheers. And it's common for people to stop, stare and offer unsolicited advice. But friends say the relentless paparazzi make her crazy. On Jan. 15 the New York Post ran an investigative report on Lewinsky's "chocoholic chow-down" the day before. Complete with unflattering photos of the "portly pepperpot," as the paper called her, the story detailed her order (a vanilla cupcake, a slice...
...dictionary, Williams accepted Howard's resignation." Buckwheat paused. "In a city like Washington this could start an epidemic of oversensitivity. You could have an explosion the next time somebody says there's a 'nip in the air' or a 'chink in your armor.' We've got to inject some common sense into this STUPID fuss...