Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past year came the recession and layoffs. As the last hired, Negroes were the first fired. In Nottingham, a textile city of 312,000, where Negroes constitute less than 1% of the population, they make up 20% of the unemployed. Fist fights between whites and Negroes have become a common Saturday night feature in Nottingham's slum district around St. Ann's Well Road, an area noted for petty crime, poverty and prostitution. Last month a gang of white Teddy boys jumped a West Indian laborer and beat him with fists and clubs. A few nights later, another...
Folies to Filene's. Federated has done so well because it tries to make each store a community institution, fits its prices and products to almost every purse. Boston's Filene's is as much a landmark as the Common or Fenway Park, prides itself on being the world's biggest specialty store with the world's most famed bargain basement. Filene's professional buyers picked up Paris dresses at a song in 1940 just before the Germans marched in, emptied out the seagoing haberdashery aboard the Queen Mary when it was converted...
Last week came one of the first serious attempts to treat the Sputnik Syndrome. In a Senate speech Massachusetts' Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall prescribed equal doses of common sense and facts. Far from wallowing in the Soviet technological wake, said he, the U.S. has made historic progress. Items: > The intermediate-range ballistic missile Thor has been put into production, and the intercontinental ballistic missile Atlas has been successfully tested at full power...
...Minister of Justice C. R. "Blackie" Swart would serve as acting Prime Minister, but life will be little different with Strijdom gone. What had given him power was the depressing fact that, to most Afrikaners, Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom's combination of righteousness and ruthlessness seemed to reflect a common ideal...
...Brotherhood of Penitentes is a fossil of medieval Christianity, preserved by the isolation of village culture in the Old World and the New. Public flagellation as penance for sins was common in Europe until the Renaissance; in Spain the custom persisted and was carried into the New World when Spanish colonists began to settle the land that is now New Mexico and Colorado. First to cross the Rio Grande, in 1598, was the expedition of Don Juan Oñate, whereupon, according to one historian, "Don Juan went to a secluded spot where he cruelly scourged himself, mingling bitter tears...