Word: uncommon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Uncommon Gyrations. The only common metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures, mercury often shows uncommon price gyrations-in response to floods, strikes, politics, foreign smuggling, or even occasional hijacking of mercury-loaded trucks in the U.S. From a twelve-year low of $189 a flask in 1963, the New York price of mercury soared to a record $740 in June 1965, then sank to $330 a year later after the Federal Government began selling surplus metal from its strategic stockpile. Last week the price bounced as usual-from a Tuesday low of $480 to a Thursday high...
Twenty of the patients died, some within 24 hours after entering the hospital. Autopsies revealed crippling damage to the heart muscle and also the liver. Searching for some common denominator, Drs. Yves Morin, Andre Tétu and Gaston Mercier found that they all drank an uncommon amount of beer-a Rabelaisian average of twelve quarts...
...until Mass General Bacteriologist Lawrence J. Kunz examined some of the children's stool specimens did he discover the alarming and unexpected reason: the relatively uncommon bacterium Salmonella cubana...
...essential reason for these problems was that the U.S. tried to accomplish an uncommon amount and strained its resources of manpower, materials, machines and money. In 1966, the nation simultaneously expanded the war in Viet Nam, extended a host of domestic programs, and escalated its standard of living. Considering all the demands put upon it, the economy performed remarkably well. The output of goods and services, growing by well over $1 billion a week, swelled from $681 billion to $739 billion; the number of jobs rose by 2,200,000 and 75 million Americans were at work; the average income...
Frustrations like these were not uncommon. Yet they resulted as much from the fragmented structure of the HDC as from concerted faculty attempts to exert control. HDC membership meetings were loud, long and fruitless--particularly since no amount of discussion could overcome the organization's overriding problem: lack of money...