Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge booking officer said most officersare very conscious about the risks that theyexpose themselves to while arresting peopleconsidered high risk. "The gloves are a necessitywhen you see some of the people who come inhere--under the circumstances it is just a matterof common sense," the officer said...
Some say it was just a case of spring fever, much like the panty-raids common to the youths of what has been called the Silent Generation...
...population had the right to carry out self-seeking designs at the expense of another class. Mr. Roosevelt, with his rabblerousing talk about "economic royalists," with his subtle encroachment upon freedom of thought through his outbursts against those of an opinion different from his own, has little in common with Harvard...
...Manwaring, 45. Although they have highly distinct styles, their parallels are striking. Both were born and reared in the Bay Area and educated at California art schools; both are lapsed devotees of European modernism. Despite success, both have kept their offices small. They do have some stylistic moves in common -- both show a fondness for fan shapes and silhouettes, and both have recently looked to turn-of-the-century Architect Josef Hoffmann for inspiration -- yet both have survived several years of extravagant attention without sinking into hack signature styles...
...Rites of Passage. For all of Talbot's well-heeled stuffiness, he constantly betrays, sometimes in spite of himself, his capacity for growth. Prolonged exposure to the "whole imaginable world" of his ship rattles his aristocratic preconceptions. The white line painted across the deck at the mainmast, segregating the common seamen and emigrants fore from the officers and better class of people aft, comes to seem ridiculous as the peril shared by everyone aboard increases. First Lieut. Summers reassures him, "This voyage will be the making of you, Mr. Talbot. At moments I even detect a strong streak of humanity...