Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arsonists set fire to a creche in the Cambridge Common the night after Christmas and nailed a sparrow and anonymous anti-religious message to the remains of the Nativity scene...
...incendiary device used by the arsonists was "not very common at all," Clark said. "It isn't the average thing...
...other common theme is that there is money to be made telling people where to go. The idea is not new. Several U.S. periodicals devoted to the journeying reader emerged at the turn of the century, including the forefather of what is today's Travel-Holiday, owned by the Reader's Digest. That magazine now has a circulation of 800,000 and remains a sedate, middlebrow Howard Johnson's sort of enterprise. The new action is exemplified by the current industry leader, American Express's upscale Travel & Leisure, a 17-year-old that is still growing briskly, with a circulation...
...debuted this winter on East Coast newsstands as an instant, if uncritical, source of news on cheap airfares, hotel rates, package tours and where to spend a long weekend just about anyplace in the world. With its short deadline and weekly frequency, the magazine sacrifices some of the gloss common in the field in order to have the latest information for the fast-growing ranks of short-trip takers and long weekenders...
...skates and a costume weighing 25 lbs.," he notes. "In order to clear the people, I had to get my speed up to 35 m.p.h. It was a knee killer." Musicians face peril as well. Pinched nerves and muscle cramps caused by repetitive hand motions are common. Violinists suffer everything from fiddler's neck rash to complete jaw displacements. Trumpeters get neck hernias and muscle tears around their mouths. Bagpipers are prone to lung infections from fungus that grows inside the bag. Clarinetists develop thumb problems, because the 28-oz. horn is supported only by a hook on the finger...