Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Impacted wax in the ears can cause pain, giddiness and impaired hearing, is especially common during summer swimming. Also nonprescription, Cerumenex can be squirted into the ears at home by syringe. It loosens and dissolves the wax so that it is easily and painlessly flushed...
...gown dissent. Speaking for the gown, Baylor University and the burgeoning Texas Medical Center (130 acres. 1,750 beds), wanted the new Jefferson Davis built as part of the center. This, they insisted, is for patients' good as well as for doctors' convenience, and it is increasingly common practice in the better U.S. medical centers. The gown's view was supported by a majority of city councilors and county commissioners...
...freedom is one of the fundamentals of the American creed. But how does religion fare in the free society of the U.S.? This week four scholars-Protestant, Jewish, Roman Catholic-deal with the question in a new study sponsored by the Fund for the Republic. * All express a surprisingly common concern: U.S. religion is in more peril than U.S. freedom...
...positive thinking" and "official Washington piety," says Dr. Miller, the justifications are "sincerity" and the vast ''numbers of people who respond favorably." What Americans are driving toward "is a shallow and implicitly compulsory common creed ... It is epitomized in the patriotic-religious pronouncements of the President and the Joint Chiefs' effort to formulate an ideology ('militant liberty') for us all." It is "a religion-in-general, superficial and syncretistic, destructive of the profounder elements of faith...
...calm. Iraq's revolutionary government took pains to assure Western oilmen that it would honor all contracts, would not only maintain oil production but try to increase it. The British-French-American-owned Iraq Petroleum Co. welcomed this feeling of sweet reasonableness, but in common with oilmen everywhere took it with a pinch of salt...