Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...constant danger of attack from rebels. Though statistics are hard to come by, those who suffer most in Angola seem to be the young. The U.N. Office of Emergency Operations reported in 1986 that up to 45% of the children in Huambo province, where guerrilla activity is common, suffered from malnutrition...
Robert Runcie's fate has been to preside over the church as it coped with a series of tempestuous issues. These have included the modernization of the Book of Common Prayer, women priests, remarriage after divorce, homosexuals in the clergy and the tendency of some bishops and theologians to scorn traditional beliefs. In each case, Runcie has tried to hold his church together as it lumbered toward liberalism...
...mere hyperbole. Something extraordinary was taking place: four decades of often truculent cold-war rhetoric were giving way to dispassionate discourse and high-level rapport. Neither side was forgetting the vast ideological chasm that separates the superpowers, but they were learning to work around their differences, to stake out common ground on which to build a better understanding...
...entertains princely notions. A journey through a winter dream world lies at the heart of every Christmas season--white wonder and warm beyond. The plot was laid and the rest was a travel log, a sight-seeing tour through the land of magic. Adulthood has no place here; common-sense is unnecessary baggage...
...were to check the other three teams besides Harvard participating in the inaugural Long Island Hockey Classic, December 27-28 at Nassau Coliseum, you would notice one common thing among them--fifth place...