Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more teen-age appeal-June 15]. I think this gal Sally should take another look at what she is doing to God's service and her fellow youths. If she and other teenagers would put down their Elvis records and Mad comics and turn to the Book of Common Prayer and the Bible, they could better understand the Psalms and Apostles' Creed, instead of having to drop them from their service or distort them so that even an Episcopalian can't recognize his own Creed...
...striking trend in favor of the plaintiff in damage suits, with ever bigger awards and ever broader liability. Such charitable institutions as churches have been held liable to the extent of having to pay damages out of their previously sacrosanct trust funds. The trend has even shaken the old common-law principle that a government entity is immune from damage claims as long as it stays within the bounds of strictly governmental activities ("The King can do no wrong''). Only last May, the Illinois Supreme Court declared that government immunity to damage suits rests...
Alarmed by the suffocation of 55 children this year by plastic bags, the plastics industry last week launched a million dollar common-sense campaign to preserve safety, along with its 3 billion-bag-a-year business (estimated $30 million in sales). In full-page advertisements in 117 major newspapers across the nation, the industry warned: "Never keep a plastic bag after it has served its intended usefulness. Destroy it: tear it up and throw it away...
...offers the most grisly description of an impaling since the Tartar Prince Azya was mounted on a stake and had his one eye gouged out in Henryk (Quo Vadis) Sienkiewicz's Pan Michael. Later, when the Serbs revolt against the crumbling Ottoman Empire, severed heads are as common on the bridge as melons used to be, but the townsfolk-always approving of good workmanship-remark that the Turkish executioner has "a lighter hand than Mushan the town barber." When the Austrians finally march into Visegrad on the heels of the routed Turks, in 1878, they find a disputatious Moslem...
...speakers at the public sessions of the conference on scientific creativity are: J. Bronowski, Director of the Coal Research Establishment of the National Coal Board, England, and author of The Common Sense of Science and Science and Human Values; James A. Shannon, Director of the National Institute of Health; Emmanuel R. Piore, Director of Research at the I.B.M. Corporation; and H. B. G. Casimir of the Philips Research Laboratories in the Netherlands...