Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some tutors in the department said last night that telling tutees the questions ahead of time was not an uncommon practice, but that more tutors were doing it this year than in the past...
...movies, which are consistently more erotic than any cabaret act, are keeping customers away. While the Block has the reputation of being one of the safest places in town to walk after dark-the cops give it very special attention-incidents of muggings and robbery are no longer uncommon. "They lure them out of here where there's all these lights and go up the street where it's quiet," a bartender explained. "They don't want to ruin a good thing...
...Varda, and at first glance her work and her husband's seem totally different. While he conjures up pastel never-never lands, she broods over such weighty matters as morality, predestination and the nature of reality. But husband and wife do have in com-BOULAT mon two uncommon traits: the ability to reduce everything to playground platitudes and a stylistic pomposity that serves only to accent the vacuity of their scripts. In Les Créatures, which Varda has dedicated to her husband, she has fashioned a kind of portrait of the artist in finger paints, a childish...
...same as the S.J.D. (Doctor of Juridical Science), a fairly uncommon degree granted to students who complete two additional years of legal study after receiving a J.D. or LL.B...
Underwhelmed. If Nixon remained an ill-defined figure to the mass of Europeans, he nonetheless registered impressively with their heads of government. In eight days of confrontations with them, he was assured and well-informed, displaying modesty and a hard intelligence, common sense and a very uncommon determination. There were no grand new visions or invocations of ancient splendor. Nixon's was an understated performance, and it was successful exactly for that reason. He went to listen to Europe's leaders, and there is no more popular conversationalist than a good listener...