Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uncommon tradition, Congress will unhand the money (or most of it) without strings-grateful that a sophisticated outfit knows how to spend...
...foreboding, dark temptations. His conscience, if it does not always triumph still does pretty well. Unlike the Italian, the Latin American or the Frenchman, for whom tax evasion is a way of life, the U.S. taxpayer turns over anywhere from 20% to 91% of his income, as requested, with uncommon honesty. Like everyone else, he likes to play the game with the tax collector, but usually for small stakes. IRS Commissioner Mortimer Caplin estimates that the U.S. taxpayer is 97% pure...
Only a common soldier, Martin sketches no sweeping historical panorama as a background to his own adventures. But as an uncommon writer, the self-taught Yankee chronicler makes a corner of that panorama come alive as never before...
...cent of its entering freshmen from the kind of applicants the study has in mind. Clearly its new President, Mr. John Sawyer, has a sense of adventure and a fine will to experiment. In a field so touchy as admissions has come to be, these are uncommon qualities. It would be a pity if institutions such as Harvard did not soon begin to share them...
...print each U.S. edition (circ. 13.5 million) takes a full month. The Digest sells more Christmas gift subscriptions-2,000,000, including renewals-than most magazines have readers. Each year it fields some 1,200,000 unsolicited contributions from readers, pays for some of those accepted at the uncommon rate of $1 a word...