Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Uncommon Man. Non-Reubens were also heard. "Damn the men who look back," cried OPAdministrator Paul Porter. Former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau stared fixedly into chaos. The Ohio C.I.O. Council wrung its hands over the "foulest deed . . . done by a wicked alliance of Northern reactionary Republicans and Southern Democrats...
Other CIOers actually produced what the Senators called a "common man" and rushed him to the Senate to speak. He was John C. Saccocio, uncommon Schenectady welder, who leveled an accusing finger at the startled members of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, and said: "People like you and you and you and you-most of you do not represent the people. You represent the manufacturers . . . where is this democracy?" He would throw every last black-marketeer in jail. There aren't enough jails, a Senator suggested. "Build more jails," retorted Citizen Saccocio...
...auto salesrooms the man who drops eight or ten $100 bills on the desk and quickly looks the other way was not uncommon...
Flip Rhetoric? CBS proudly claims Corwin as its own uncommon man, repeats many of his broadcasts, gives him a free hand, lets him publish his scripts in book form. But the reaction has set in. He has been savagely lampooned by Radio Wit Abe Burrows (TIME, Feb. 11). Some call him the "poor man's MacLeish." Assessing his V-E day's On a Note of Triumph, Critic Bernard DeVoto, who rarely likes anything, wrote in Harper...
...common man": "It isn't the 'common man' at all who is important; it's the uncommon...