Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carries the U.S. State Department in his hat-took along position papers to study on the plane that bore him to Paris. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd saw a chance, in Germany's difficulties, to impress on the West Germans that British exclusion from Europe's Common Market is quite as important in British eyes as the Berlin crisis. On Berlin itself, the British argued that instead of rejecting the Soviet ultimatum outright, the West should counter by proposing a summit talk to discuss other matters as well, including German reunification and disarmament...
Some Arab leaders have at last begun to see that the Communists, hitherto almost indistinguishable in the common outcry against the West, had never in fact accepted Arab unity under Nasser as a sufficient anti-Western end in itself. All the time, the Reds had been infiltrating and sabotaging the movement, and biding their time to seize power for themselves...
...Nasser as he is resentful and suspicious of the U.S. But both are coming to see that there may be a force loose in the Middle East that is more dangerous to their own interests than each is to the other. The two may yet find themselves making common cause together, if at arm's length...
...blame for the diarrhea that strikes in major tourist centers. His research team based its findings mainly on the experience of travelers to Europe and Mexico, found that amoebae and the most-feared bacteria could be eliminated as suspects. A probable culprit in many cases: microbes of the common genus Staphylococcus, which may multiply in food kept under poor refrigeration and prepared under unsanitary conditions-but this usually has nothing to do with fecal contamination of food and water. In other cases, overeating and consumption of highly spiced or oily foods may be to blame...
...were sick of the "serious" theatre--of playwrights who make love to their anguish; of sonambulists gurgling from garbage cans; of semi-articulate anthropoids stumbling between sets and grunting their soliloquies; all the varied fare of trash and tedium which passes for tragedy on the Stage of the Common Man--then check your despair at the door. A great play given a great production has come to Broadway; one must hang out all the old abused superlatives and this time mean them...