Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates at Strasbourg were all shades, from blond Scandinavians through coffee-colored Turks to the two Senegalese members of the French delegation. Cracked a newsman: "About the only thing they have in common is monogamy...
Election of a Brave. Actually they had other things in common: fear of Russia, fear (in some cases) of a resurgent Germany, fear of economic collapse. They also shared a vague pride in being citizens of what Churchill calls the famous continent, Europe. The minor squabbles between British Laborites and Tories at the conference showed clearly that the representatives of sovereign nations could act not as members of a British (or French or Belgian) bloc, but as Europeans with individual convictions...
...found on flies), or why polio is a hot-weather disease (although the virus can live a year in the deepfreeze), or why it has become more severe in the last half-century, especially in countries with high living standards. They do not know why it has become less common in New England, and far more serious in Kansas and California...
This week the animated dredge is digging harder than at any time since 1927, when soundtracks shattered the silent movies and Hollywood had to line up a whole new team of movie stars overnight. Every day the maw takes a bite or two of common clay, lugs it off to Hollywood's casting mills. There it is sifted for the sapphires that men sometimes find in common clay...
...both groups, simple-souled, common-sensical Joe Lockman is a freak-"a stray bird of the cormorant capitalist species" who has somehow blundered into their nest. Similarly, to Joe, both purists and realists are crazy products of a U.S. he has never known...