Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beliefs: 1) "he is right and all opponents are wrong, spiritually and factually; 2) he can beat any politician or set of politicians at their common trade; 3) he is boss and intends to assert it; 4) the American majority and most men & women of good will support him down to the item; and 5) if his friends are criticized, with or without good basis, it is a virtue to make a blanket defense of them and keep them in the places to which they are assigned...
Shertok's praise was explicable on two counts: i) Israel could afford to be generous with words, having got most of what it wanted; 2) Israel might, just possibly, want to make common cause with Egypt against a resurgence of British "imperialism" in the Middle East...
...common efforts of the freedom-loving French do not succeed in bringing our country back into the camp of democracy and peace, if later our country should be dragged against its will into a war against the Soviet Union, and if the Soviet army, defending the cause of freedom and socialism, should be brought to pursue the aggressors onto our soil, could the workers and people of France have any other attitude toward the Soviet army than has been that of the peoples of Poland, Rumania and Yugoslavia...
Prescott Bohn and James Stewart presented a concert by the Crimson Stompers in the Common Room after dinner while Joe Heaney and Bert Karon passed out free beer in Thayer...
Some of the polo players even brought their own mounts with them and stabled them amongst the R.O.T.C. ponies. But that was before the war, and the rise of income tax, the mechanized army and the common...