Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Embracery, stemming from English common law, is the act of bribing or corruptly influencing the judgment or verdict of a judge or a jury...
...build link canals and reservoirs in Pakistan to replace water that India diverted for itself. Still, as Black knew, New Delhi and Karachi are tired of a decade of bitterness, and some Indians and Pakistanis, watching Red China's actions in Tibet, have come to recognize a common peril...
...debate about space allotments, e.g., between the Department of Propaganda and the Department of Soviet Constructions. But the planyorka was no more than a ritual. Within 15 minutes it was over at both papers. The editors filed back to their cubbyholes (there are no city rooms), ate fruit from common bowls, and followed orders. About midnight, the presses of both papers began to roll the interminable party line...
...child of Boston, which has raised the handling of O.P.M. (other people's money) to the status of a fine art. The art was born of an 1830 court decision, the "Prudent Man Rule." In settling a suit charging a trustee with negligence in investing in common stocks, the judge held that a trustee for someone else's money need only "conduct himself faithfully and exercise the sound discretion" in investments that a prudent man would. This meant that Boston trustees could prudently buy into common stocks, fear no suits from clients even if they lost every penny...
While it is true that one cannot fully appreciate the rationale behind apartheid and its seeming abuses without actually living in South Africa, political common sense leads one to suspect that tolerance before a moderate such as Luthuli would contribute more to the longrun stability of Africa than suppression and a subsequent build-up of resentment and latent violence. Apartheid relies on an almost feudal concept of society, of lords and meek, obedient serfs (Africans of all ages are referred to as "boys," according to the New York Times) which would seem untenable, given the fact of industrialization, no matter...