Word: communalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will make up for the handkerchief of private garden . . . The privileges of ... gathering up a tearful toddler within a few seconds of his tumble at play, of quieting a squabble . . . without leaving the milk to boil over may seem trivial to architects; by mothers they are valued much above communal laundries...
...hundreds of thousands of fruit and nut trees beside newly driven artesian wells. Among the volcano-ringed Puebla valleys, water led 7 miles through new mountain tunnels has brought record crops of corn and beans. Since World War II, Mexico has switched the emphasis from the revolution-blessed ejido (communal farm) to the privately owned farm, and with men on tractors tilling their own land there has been a healthy rise in food output...
...colony was formally organized as the United Effort, a communal settlement in which all wages, earnings and food were pooled. The FBI raided it in 1944 and made several arrests. But the colony kept growing; its population reached 36 men, 86 women and 263 children...
Last week's communal wingding was staged solely to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the introduction to Tehuantepec of La Sandunga, originally a Spanish fandango. Because the song is now the town's own anthem, the occasion was marked with fitting energy. Through the first night the townspeople, bearing pinewood torches, paraded, fired Roman candles and danced. Next morning, with hardly more than a pause for some fiery 120-proof mescal (drunk with powdered cactus-worm salt for additional flavor), a new parade started...
Just as the dormitory is a self-contained unit, so is every floor. Each of the four floors of Moors Hall is a going community with a personality all its own. With a smoker, a communal washroom, a kitchen, and ironing boards of its own, every floor fuses its occupants into a unit...