Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...herding the peasantry into communes. "Well, they organized communes," he said. "But neither the material nor political conditions for it-I mean the consciousness of the peasant masses-then existed. A situation arose in which everyone wanted to live well but to contribute a minimum of labor to the common cause." China, in other words, would soon learn, as Russia did, that communes offer too much scope for goldbricking...
...mind, economic ministers of the Outer Seven needed only two days last week at the Swedish resort of Saltsjoebaden to agree on the essentials of their European Free Trade Association (TIME, July 27). Member nations hope to have the final draft by October and to announce their first common tariff reductions, to be effective next July. They made no bones about their real purpose: "To facilitate negotiations" with the bigger, booming Common Market Six (France, West Germany, Italy, Benelux) and thus head off a permanent division of European trade...
...Though not in the U.S., where their bulky nests are common sights along both coasts and on inland waterways...
...place at his old school. This season, with 24 returning lettermen, was to be the year for North Carolina. But fortnight ago, his huge 240-lb. body covered with a red rash, Jim Tatum was rushed to the university hospital. Doctors diagnosed an overwhelming attack of a "common type of virus" that had affected his vital organs. Last week, at 45, Coach Jim Tatum died...
...enough to call a studio," she insists, adding, rightly, that she is "not a great painter." But, she says, "it's not for lack of darned hard work. I never had more money than I needed. I am thankful to have known the facts and struggles of a common life." Humility shines through Dame Laura's art-and so does humanity...