Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movement. At Monday night dinners in the Arlington St. Church, he had his own circle around him. That was the one solid thing about the Resistance. It was a community. Every Monday night, the FBI agents with felt hats and over coats would cross the street from the Common and stand in front of the church. They'd stand by the entrance to the meeting room downstairs and aim umbrellas to you and take your picture, click. The women in the Unitarian church made dinner and about a hundred people ate together off paper plates...
...once the mercurial Sukarno was overthrown in 1967. Nixon wants the U.S. to participate in Indonesia's economic development, but he did not urge any shift in foreign policy. "We respect you as a proud and independent nation," he said in Djakarta. "It is on the basis of common values and ideals and not on the basis of alliance or alignment that my country seeks to cooperate with the Indonesian republic...
Arrest. In a college town, where casual relationships with strangers are common, security precautions are of limited value. Sorority girls who live on Washtenaw Avenue, for example, still hitchhike rather than walk the two miles to campus, and campus bulletin boards abound with notices of girls seeking weekend rides. Once the fall session starts, campuses will again bustle with mixers, where young men and women traditionally seek to meet strangers. One coed said last week: "We're not talking about the creature from the Black Lagoon. We're talking about a smooth guy −or guys...
Unlucky Number. In all, there are at least 30 underground groups in Greece. Some consist only of a dozen men, a resounding title and a typewriter (mimeographs must be registered with the police). But all the groups have a common aim: to weaken the regime's internal and international standing. By creating an impression of growing unrest and instability, they hope to scare off tourists and persuade the U.S. to urge Papadopoulos to hold free elections...
...best defense against common pests, says Cry California, is simply to keep the garden well watered, fed and weeded. A strong blast of water from the garden hose is often effective against leafhoppers and spittlebugs. Such nat ural predators as birds, ladybugs and lacewings wreak havoc with aphids, caterpillars and oak moths. When poisons must be used, the problem is how to avoid overkill. The preferred pesticides are "botanicals," or natural poisons extracted from plants-for example, nicotine sulphate, rotenone and pyrethrum. Their effectiveness, though, is limited to certain chewing pests and sucking insects, such as Diabrotica and thrips. Some...