Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GROCER Eouard Leclerc of Landerneau, France, and Homebuilder John Long of Phoenix, Ariz, have much in common: they are both young entrepreneurs who have startled their respective industries by bringing low costs and high volume. See BUSINESS, Apostle Behind the Counter and How to Live Like a Star...
...avoid an income tax, refuse to release the veterans' fund until Williams agrees. Still adamant. Soapy Williams offered a compromise. The compromise, it turned out, was his original offer restated, and it was turned down. As the deadlock continued and funds got scarcer, the Detroit News crystallized a common sentiment about the poverty of statesmanship: "Party leadership has shown it cannot lead, except into disaster. It's time for men of better will to get to work...
...propose to have a military alliance with any country, come what may, and I want to be clear about it," Nehru said. He was all for settling mutual problems and living in peace with Pakistan, but "I do not understand when people say we must have a common defense policy." He added, ingenuously: "Against whom...
...students of all countries quickly find a common language. They are interested in curriculum programs, student organizations, scholarships...
...experiences with the American press and at Harvard were, on his own admission, especially unpleasant in this regard--a fact which could not be admitted in Ogonek, but which could be avenged through the satirical use of Harvard as a symbol of the rich capitalist class which oppresses the common worker and "peasant" in the United States...