Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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YESTERDAY I WOKE up a little early, I think around 11:30 a.m. and walked into my common room and turned on "The Prize is Right." That's the best show on T.V.. I swear, the prizes are the greatest. After the showcase, I put on my Toronto Blue Jays baseball hat and Dillon sweats, (Those sweats are so stylish their great.) and went to lunch at the Kirkland Dining Hall...
...trial next week as one of the main defendants in a racketeering and conspiracy case against members of the Gambino crime family. While he can hardly consider that a welcome prospect, he may find it more seemly to stand trial as a would-be Godfather than as a common street mugger...
...music-teaching method that sets two- and three-year-olds to performing on the violin and other instruments, or the Better Baby Institute in Philadelphia, which offers parents a weeklong course called How to Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence so that the toddler can achieve "encyclopedic knowledge." A & common upshot of such regimens, say critics, is robot virtuosity with little understanding and no lasting gain. The most reliable head start parents can provide, asserts T. Berry Brazelton, professor of pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School, in his 1985 book Working and Caring, is to back off from the pushy stuff...
...Fort Lauderdale now prohibits open containers of booze in cars or alongside A1A. Still, the law and the weather did not always work well together. Heavy rains kept some vacationers inside hotels and motels, where maximum-capacity regulations prevented them from congregating in lobbies or other common areas. Thus the kids had only one place to do their drinking: their rooms. The resulting vandalism was the worst in years. "They just went wild," said Caryl Sickel, director of sales at Fort Lauderdale's Days Inn. "They did $50,000 worth of damage in an hour...
Arrests for the season stood at 1,920 in Fort Lauderdale last week, double last year's number, with jail stays as common as the smell of suntan lotion...