Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Uncommon Development. Europe today is a tangled skein of alliances and associations, knitting the nations together for everything from the defense of the free world (NATO) to the telecasting of the Scots Guards into the homes of Athenians and Ankarans (EUROVISION), and the exchange of trade (EFTA), aid (OECD). and commemorative postage stamps (CEPT). Some of these organizations are not radically different from the old familiar alliances that the European nations have always found it convenient to form in times of relative peace. The drastic new departure that galvanizes all the others is the six-nation Common Market, comprising France...
...move freely where needed in a mass market-to the economic benefit of producer, worker and consumer. But set against Europe's age-old rivalries and stubborn economic nationalism, in which trade barriers used to be as fanatically guarded as national borders, the Common Market is an astonishingly uncommon development...
...Penn, Harvard, Princeton, Brown should win tomorrow, we'll be reading about another upset in the Ivy League morning. That's not an uncommon experience
...Uncommon Enterprize." As a young man, John Adams fancied the ladies, and advised his nieces to practice the good old New England custom of bundling. In 1759, at the age of 23, Adams vowed mightily: "Shall I sleep away my whole 70 Years? No by every Thing I swear I will renounce the Contemplative, and betake myself to an active roving Life by Sea or Land, or else I will attempt some uncommon unexpected Enterprize...
Administration of Justice. Rarely have the mills of U.S. justice been so clogged. In federal district courts, 6,200 cases have been pending for at least three years; in state courts it now takes about a year for the average case to be heard; it is not uncommon for personal-injury cases to linger on dockets for five years. Chief...