Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...facts of international politics. International relations are not a game of good cowboys against bad cowboys; very little can be gained by an attitude of righteous indignation that the top boss of Communism be allowed to visit the United States as an honored guest. War is the common enemy of the whole world; clear-cut understanding and removal of prejudices and fatal illusions of superiority from both sides are our weapons...
British Hints. Britain's suspicious mood reflected economic divisions as well as political differences. Watching the steady growth of economic ties and the nascent sense of "European identity" in the six Common Market nations, Britain increasingly feels itself odd man out in Western Europe, and considers this not the result of British unwillingness to pay the price of European membership but the fault of Adenauer's and De Gaulle's alliance. Prime Minister Macmillan, seeing Ike alone at Chequers, was expected to spend some of his time deploring not Khrushchev's behavior but De Gaulle...
...seven equal ways, LIFE bought the exclusive right to all seven personal diaries of the astronauts' experiences leading up to and including the first trips into space. The men early decided on the seven-way split (actually 14, since the astronauts' wives are contract signatories) on the common-sense ground that though only one man could be first up, the other six will probably follow...
...great success. Munich's Joseph Cardinal Wendel took in Danish Bishop Frode Beyer and his wife as house guests, and many a Catholic family followed the cardinal's example. All over the city, for the Kirchentag's five days, Catholics and Protestants explored areas of common religious interest in a tone that was far different from the bitter polemics of past centuries. Germany's top Protestant leaders were on hand, including Bishops Otto Dibelius of Berlin and Hanns Lilje of Hannover. Each day of the Kirchentag began with Communion in 16 churches, went on to Bible...
...easier for a handsome, Aryan-looking girl than for her brother, but to live she still needed her wits about her, day and night. The heroines of these two novels are both young Jewish girls trying to stay alive under Nazi rule during World War II. Apart from this common fate, they share several things- intelligence, a sharp instinct for survival, religious indifference, and a strong, hard-dying concern about keeping their virginity...