Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government this week planned to improve their lot still further by abandoning, for all practical purposes, the $280 ceiling on the amount of sterling British tourists are allowed to carry abroad. On the Continent the boom was so solid that last week the foreign ministers of the Common Market met in Brussels to discuss moving forward from 1970 to 1965 the date when goods, men and money will move with complete freedom through the six-nation area that already bids fair to become the world's largest trader...
...modifications of the Pakistani woman's traditional baggy trousers. Worse yet, despite their exterior modernization, the girls remain shy and reserved, tend to move across campus in tittering groups, like schools of fish. Reeling after them in an agony of frustration, the boys gather outside the "ladies' common room" to giggle, guffaw, whistle and ogle...
...Young Men lash themselves into a low-powered tantrum over the grubby, provincial world they have inherited in the Brave New World of socialism, a group of young realist painters, known as the "Kitchen-Sinkers," celebrate with gusto the seamy world of cluttered kitchen tables precisely because it is "common to everyone." It is a world in which the plumber is hero, being both "a craftsman and a necessity." A good part of the Kitchen-Sink work looks as if a plumber could have painted it, including some still lifes that focus hard on that hardy piece of English enamelware...
...British Labor Party and its mightiest press mouthpiece, London's Daily Mirror, have long drawn strength from a common source: young people. The Labor Party grew to power with help from Britain's discontented, we-can-change-the-world young folk. The Daily Mirror (circ. 4,571,000), serving up a spicy blend of triangular love, bloody crimes, and pictures of young ladies in the near buff came to command the world's largest newspaper audience of readers under 35 years: some 1,500,000. But in recent months, the Mirror has begun to wonder...
...their bleeding stanched. Separated at last, each twin had her own quartet working independently-and with welcome elbow room-to close the fibrous covering that encapsulates the liver. After 4 hrs. 40 min., it was over. As a final esthetic touch, the surgeons had divided the twins' common navel so that each girl, after skin grafting, would look normal-if she lived...