Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...common experience of Ellis Island fostered a fitting sort of quasi- kinship among U.S. citizens: nearly half of all Americans today can trace their lineage through the enormous main registry hall. Last week, as two visitors strolled the rich, elegiac ruin, a workman spontaneously announced his family connection with the place. "My grandmother came here when she was 17 years old," he shouted, "with nothing but a suitcase full of oranges. A suitcase full of oranges...
Minor reactions to the vaccine, such as redness and swelling, are common. Permanent brain damage, according to one study, occurs only once in about every 300,000 inoculations, death even less frequently. Researchers suspect that these severe complications--which can include convulsions, shock, loss of muscle control and fever--are caused by bacterial toxins. Still, most doctors insist that the shots are worth the risks. Martin Smith, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, calculates that the chances of suffering serious damage from whooping cough are ten times greater than having damaging side effects from the vaccine. Says Dr. Peter...
Each dormitory resident shells out $965 for room and board for the eight week session. The University does not plan to reduce fees for students placed in common rooms. Nor will it pay the temporary housing costs for the 30 students...
...slice of angel food"). Laid down in his essay The Simple Art of Murder, Chandler's description of the fictional American detective has the power of an ecclesiastical oath: "He is a relatively poor man, or he would not be a detective at all. He is a common man or he could not go among common people. He has a sense of character, or he would not know his job. He will take no man's money dishonestly and no man's insolence without a due and dispassionate revenge. He is a lonely man and his pride is that...
...Star's audience has also grown more diverse, ranging from federal employees who commute the 50 miles to Washington to the watermen who fish the Chesapeake Bay. What those residents have in common is a need to know what is going on in their immediate world, and from Monday through Saturday (there is no Sunday edition) the Star meets that need as completely as any paper can. The front page features at least two local stories a day, while one of the paper's four sections is devoted entirely to area news (the other three: general news, sports, and life...