Word: commons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...excruciating saga of Pete Rose and gambling seemed to be coming to a shuddering finish last week. A common-pleas judge in Cincinnati was pondering whether to issue a temporary restraining order -- and perhaps turn the Rose investigation over to the courts -- or leave Rose to face Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti and the music early this week. After four months of husky whispers, the worst charges imagined were spoken aloud at last. Giamatti's special investigator, John Dowd, asserted in court that he has found nine witnesses and enough corroborating evidence to prove that Rose committed baseball's capital...
Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Norbert Nadel's unprecedented ruling prevented Giamatti from holding a hearing today in New York on allegations that could get Rose banned for life from baseball...
...years of history, were nearly as disparate as the directions from which they arrived. Whereas Kennedy's aim was to spread a message of resolve at the very height of the cold war, the Soviet leader proclaimed a new era in which East and West could peacefully share their common continent...
...most concrete accomplishment of the four-day visit was a joint declaration committing both countries to "overcoming the division of Europe" and sharing "a common European home." The wording of the first point was crucial to the West Germans, who hope that someday one of the divisions to give way will be the separation of the two Germanys. The second is Gorbachev's formulation for placing the Soviet Union in the European mainstream...
...naive earnestness of 1960s-style encounter-group sessions. Their meetings are arranged secretly with code words; they debate over coffee and cake in one another's homes; they talk about mistrust and victimization. The Jews recall the Holocaust, the Palestinians the humiliation of Israel's occupation. In common, they all deplore the intransigence of Israel's political leadership...