Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...square world. Heavyweight Eddie Machen brought unquestioned skill and uncommon pride. A strong, lithe Negro from Redding, Calif. Machen was no classic heavyweight-only 23 of his 41 victories were by knockouts-but he was easily the most talented boxer in a division that was dominated by a bunch of classless pugs. He taunted opponents gleefully ("What's the matter-can't you hit me?"), beat them with eye-catching combination punches. Until 1958 he was undefeated; he ranked as the No. 1 challenger and seemed sure to get a crack at the title held by Floyd Patterson...
Since then, working out of its own bureaus in Luxembourg and Brussels, and through a Pan-European chain of correspondents, Agence Europe has continued to pry into Common Market affairs with uncommon energy. One Market official in Luxembourg complains that every time he opens his desk drawer, "out pops an Agence Europe spy." To foil Gazzo and his men, the European bureaucracy runs security checks on its own typists and secretaries, once hired a female acquaintance of Gazzo's as a counterspy. The scheme fell through when the lady loyally peached. When Britain's Common Market mission moved...
Pentagon Pressure. Lockheed's stand was made in the face of uncommon pressure. Last September a presidential fact-finding commission recommended that the emotion-charged union shop controversy in the aerospace industry be settled by putting it to a vote of the workers in each aerospace company. The committee specified that a two-thirds majority would be required for approval of the union shop, and it looked as though Lockheed could scarcely lose such a vote: little more than half its eligible workers are union members, and the union shop idea has recently been voted down at North American...
...unaffected sense of equality with Britain's former subjects that has earned him the friendship of native leaders from Bangalore to Brunei. To hold Kenya together, as the East African Standard warned last week, he will also need "the wisdom of Solomon, the patience of Job and uncommon good luck...
...office. The wash is whisked to a nearby automatic laundry, and when the women leave the theater, their clean clothes are waiting for them, dry and neatly packaged. In fact, the shopping-center theater has revived the old habit of family movie night. It is not uncommon to see whole groups of parents and children arrive at the shopping center as soon as Daddy gets home from work, to buy shoes, browse for books, check on coming cultural attractions, eat dinner-and go to the movies...