Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite Dubinsky's bitter protests, "unions within unions" are not uncommon. They already exist among staff members of at least nine U.S. unions, including the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. Says the Electrical Workers' President James Carey: "As an employer, I believe in practicing what I preach...
...heads. Most will be married at 15, lie on their deathbeds at 40. Many peasants still drink from the filthy canals, scorning the "weak" water supplied by a new artesian well. Life is so cheap that a professional killer can be hired for ten dollars, and it is not uncommon to see a gunman walking casually down a dusty road holding a large, white sunshade in one hand and a gun in the other...
Shrewd Banker Wallenberg, however, has restricted himself to overseeing Ericsson's finances. To handle company operations, he brought in as president Sven Ture Aberg, 58, an imperturbable electrical engineer who negotiates with uncommon skill in five languages (Swedish, English, Spanish, French and German...
...third, depending on the edition) section of The Sound and the Fury, doubtless reflects some attributes of the archetypal Harvard student. One can hardly doubt that the philosophical debate on the meaning of time in the few minutes before being late to a nine o'clock lecture is uncommon. But Quentin's dilemmas, Faulkner would insist, are not the dilemmas of the Harvard student, or even of the Southern student at Harvard. They are rather the "old verities and truths of the heart." Faulkner's insistence on these verities became a recurrent theme whenever he talked about his own works...
...machinery and moving parts; unless you have a screw loose, it has no place on the head." Cigars, Facials. Chicago, for all its Midwestern spittoons-on-the-floor masculinity, has at least two beauty shops for men. Biggest is Bayard's Hair Studio, where it is not an uncommon sight to see a husky customer sitting with a cigar in his mouth and a hairnet on his head, as an operator uses a hand dryer to finish up his permanent wave. Owner Tom Bayard (who wears one of the toupees he specializes in-wavy black with a few grey...