Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been fighting among themselves for centuries -Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-formed the European Coal and Steel Community, surrendered to its control 188 iron ore mines, 355 steel companies operating 455 iron and steel plants, 145 coal mining companies operating 459 active pits. Last week the Common Assembly met in Rome to review five years' experience of the first practical experiment in European community, and found it good...
This was the Assembly's last meeting. Next February it will be replaced by a new parliament with authority over the Common Market and Euratom projects too. Said Pope Pius XII to the delegates: "The Coal and Steel Community has placed Europe on a new road leading to infinite promise...
...opinion of physicians, most of whom are men, micromastia (abnormal smallness of the breasts) is neither a very serious nor a very common complaint, but a great many U.S. women seem agitated about it, some to the point of severe neurosis. In San Francisco last week, the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery was divided over the desirability of a drastic remedy: surgery to pad out the breasts, using either body fat or a spongelike synthetic...
Manhattan's Dr. Gustave Aufricht, 63, was amused by what he regards as a current fad for big breasts, because in the early days of his practice, in the 1920s, an equally common problem was the reverse-how to reduce large breasts.* Now, to make bosoms bigger, he uses fat taken from the woman's own body (usually the buttocks, which many women are glad to have reduced anyway). Dr. Aufricht and his colleagues at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital will have nothing to do with a patient who shows signs of emotional disturbance...
...confidante, with life and versatility. Moldovan, as the Doctor, swirls about the stage conferring blessings, oaths, and sorcery chants with skill and equanimity. Miss Ferguson picks her toes, rubs her thighs, and on occasion seems in doubt what to do with her hands--but convinces the audience she is common, and keeps it laughing...