Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kenedy's political hopes are common knowledge, although he has yet to throw his hat in the ring--he wants to be President of the United States. However, the fact that Governor Furcolo wants to become Senator Furcolo in 1961 seems to have received little publicity. Nevertheless, this situation is the key factor in the campaign. It has had two direct effects...
Chamberlain began looking around, comparing notes with his colleagues to see how they met the problem of maintaining common bonds with their districts. He joined the Michigan Republican delegation at breakfast every other week, became a regular at the weekly Tuesday-afternoon sessions of the Acorn Club, an informal organization of freshmen Republican Congressmen who shared with Chamberlain the problem of learning. Such group meetings were helpful, but Chamberlain was still the only Representative from the Sixth District of Michigan, and slowly, painfully, he developed his own system of keeping pace with the folks back home...
...just hadn't the feel of the thing, the sense of balance, the common sense that millions have of how it works. My opinion is what it always was, that the immense mass of his published work is practically valueless...
...star, getting the advantage of May's huge national purchasing and merchandising facilities and its solid footing in some of the fastest growing U.S. population areas, e.g., Los Angeles and Denver. If stockholders approve-and they are expected to-May Co. will swap 9¼ shares of its common stock for each ten shares of Hecht. Hecht Chairman Samuel M. Hecht will become a member of the new May board, and Levi will become a board member and vice president...
Haloed Band. Reading the roll of long-dead parties, and seeing the photographs of her long-dead suitors (each marked by a common quality of good looks, bravery and a certain vulnerability), it is impossible not to believe that the "haloed band" did not sense what it was in for. Their parties, Lady Diana says, were "dances of death." On one party, on a chartered boat on the Thames, young Denis Anson thought it would be a good idea to take a dip. He was never seen again. Diana held his watch, and later consoled herself that he probably would...