Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pianist Van Cliburn: he accomplished more than a corps of diplomats in finding at least one common ground on which it is possible to talk to the Russians...
Morse and Handyman DeForest ("Dee") Pickert were bound for a campaign rally in Oregon City last October when a third friend remarked to Republican Pickert: "Wayne really gave your old pal Ike a good working over last night." Snapped Pickert: "Ike has forgot more about war than the common man will ever know." At that point Wayne Morse blew with a fury old friends in Oregon and the U.S. Capitol are wary of. Soon after Morse sent to Employee Pickert a check for $49.25 in wages and a parting explanation: "I am very sorry that it became necessary...
...consider De Gaulle's austere Hotel Matignon office as a fortress to be stormed. Cutting words crept into the conversation of British officials over the alleged "obstinacy" of the general. The principal British complaint was economic. The British were furious about the Jan. 1 beginning of the European Common Market (France, Germany, Italy, Benelux), which leaves Britain outside...
After killing Britain's proposed Western European Free Trade Area (TIME, Dec. 1), the French had agreed to extend to outside nations the same 10% tariff cuts and 20% import quota increases promised to the members of the Common Market. This was as far as the protectionist-minded French intended to go. They would not grant to outsiders the Common Market provision to raise import quotas in each category to at least 3% of a nation's home production (which would allow a lot more German Volkswagens than British Hillman Minxes into France). To the British charge...
...some of the nation's biggest and richest names-bankers, industrialists, Cabinet ministers, even members of Franco's own family. Though details were carefully concealed from the public, the roundup was the climax of the most sensational financial scandal in the history of the regime. The crime common to all: setting up secret accounts overseas, mounting to at least $280 million in Switzerland and to millions more in banks elsewhere...