Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer, it soon appeared, was an urgent need for stocktaking, such as was taking place all over Western Europe last week as the result of the passage of the Euratom and Common Market treaties by the French National Assembly...
Although Cambridge fire laws limit crowds in the Union Common Room to 400, more than 500 reportedly found their way into the dance, even though tickets were not sold beyond the legal maximum it was learned...
Last week, only a day after it passed the anticartel law, West Germany's Bundestag ratified both the Common Market and Euratom Treaties. The next step is approval in that graveyard of European aspirations, the French National Assembly. Last week, as the French Assembly moved into the final stages of debate on the two treaties, attendance was scant-at one point only 18 Deputies were in the chamber-and the sole outburst of passion occurred in the parliamentary bar, where insulted Communists felled an aggressive right-wing Deputy with a broken beer bottle. Cynics blamed the apathy...
Linking Israel, the U.S. and Jordan's King Hussein together as common villains is Nasser's latest propaganda device to try to win the Arab masses. "Brethren in Arabism, brethren in Palestine," cried Cairo's Voice of the Arabs, "imagine all these things which imperialism wishes for you, American imperialism itself. Imagine it is not only intended to scatter one million Palestine Arab refugees, but the intention today is to kill them and annihilate them completely . . . Brethren, imagine your fate after [they] hand you over to your American enemy to annihilate...
Oilmen from coast to coast awoke to what Phillips and Home Oil had suspected: the entire area from Great Slave south to Lesser Slave Lake and west to the Rockies, some 100,000 sq. mi. in all, was probably underlain with a thick common bed of rich oil-bearing formations, forming a vast new oil domain, where a wildcatter could spend a lifetime drilling and not exhaust the chances of a new find. Said Phillips' divisional manager, D. L. Potter: "This opens up a virgin wilderness of vast potential...