Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growing cooperation. Each central bank now maintains a large foreign department to keep in touch with other banks. Last December the Paris Club set up a uniform system of confidential statistics about each country and made its findings available to all participating central banks. Today it is not uncommon for one government to give another government a few hours' notice of a change in the bank discount rate, a practice unheard of only a few years ago. At their international meetings, monetary men dispense with the diplomatic trimmings, close the doors to the public and speak with such remarkable...
...enticed to leave home for fear of losing touch with what he calls the "ordinary way of life." What the ordinary way of life means for Schulz is a 28-acre estate in Sebastopol, north of San Francisco, where he and Joyce and their five children live in uncommon luxury. Artificial waterfall, tennis court, riding ring, park, baseball diamond, barbecue pit, pool, all testify to Sparky's determination to give his children everything he lacked as a boy. Keeping the family company are five cats, four horses, three dogs, two turtles and a mouse. In true Peanuts fashion...
...aides scramble to retrieve it, Kennedy tells Shepard with mock solemnity that "this medal has gone from the ground up." That quip, of course, loses something in writing. And yet, it is more revealing than most of the narration, which never advances beyond the observation that Kennedy was "an uncommon man" who "built his program in an uncommon manner...
...these is a special section reporting in detail on an uncommon conference, of which Time Inc. was a major sponsor, held last week in New York City. Inspired by Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth), the 1963 encyclical of the late Pope John XXIII, the conference brought together more than 1,500 philosophers, theologians, statesmen and diplomats of widely different backgrounds from all around the world. In what were idealistic and admittedly quite general terms, they discussed peace and how it might be attained...
...memory; the flags at the new Music Center were lowered to half-mast. And perhaps the best tribute of all came from his fans. On the day following his death, Capitol Records was deluged with orders for more than 1,000,000 of his records-the legacy of an uncommon King who would know no successor...