Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dinner to milk and cranberry salad. The only worry now was how best to spend the four hours before the library closed at ten. This was a greater problem than it might appear, for Lucius was a great believer in preventive medicine, and by now the material was all common knowledge...
...making of military alliances, and foreign troops would not be allowed on German soil. This plan should certainly appeal to the West: militarily, Germany would be willing and able to defend itself; politically and economically, the extremely hopeful post-war developments of the Franco-German rapprochement and the European Common Market could be preserved; Germany, legally forbidden to enter NATO, would be none-the less committed in principle to the Western point-of-view...
Under medical treatment in Rome, the ailing Imam of Yemen, 67, was suffering from arthritis, also reportedly from the effects of chewing too many qat leaves (a common Middle Eastern narcotic), swigging too many flagons of eau de cologne (he likes the stuff), and leaning too heavily on aphrodisiacs. In keeping with Arabian face-keeping, the oil-rich Imam arrived in Rome last month with an entourage of about 90 assorted Yemeni, including several Cabinet ministers, scimitar-bearing guards, three of his Queens, 23 concubines (who, according to the Italian Foreign Office, are not genuine harem types, "just slaves...
...that had been tuning up in sections for centuries, Newton's law of gravity brought the exhilarating unity of a conductor's baton. The music of the spheres, in which the ancients believed literally, at last existed symbolically in the harmony of a Newtonian universe under the common rule of certain natural laws. But the post-Newtonian universe has again become something of a mystery, notes Koestler. He quotes the late Sir James Jeans, who suggested that "the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine...
...Council has done well: It began a series of panel discussions to let students question Administration officers on important policy decisions which are often made without reference to undergraduate opinion. The Council started the Harvard-Columbia Conference on Education which brought delegates from comparable colleges together to discuss common problems. The NSA's failure to provide this kind of program was a major reason for last fall's withdrawal. In both cases the Council filled long-neglected needs with programs which seem to have good futures...