Word: uncommonness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a quarter of an hour, the comrade director relinquished the controls and the aircraft resumed its straight and level-more or less-course. Such incidents are not uncommon in Eastern Europe, where flying aboard the national airlines-known to veteran travelers as "the salami lines"-is often a surrealistic experience. TIME'S Eastern European Correspondent William Mader has been a frequent passenger over the past two years. His appraisal: "Flight with the Eastern Europeans is often hectic, uncomfortable and even, too frequently, hair-raising. The reasons are Communist inefficiency and relative backwardness, lassitude and native temperament. Even though...
...behavior and his postal duties, the court said, his superiors had deprived him of due process of law. The court emphasized that the Government's discretionary powers over its employees are "not unlimited," and added: "The specter of the Government dashing about investigating this non-notorious and not uncommon relationship that was totally divorced from plaintiff's governmental duties is the most disturbing aspect of this case...
Today most blacks and thoughtful whites have accepted the fact that leadership on the magnitude of a Martin Luther King is uncommon in any race or time. This realization has contributed to a new mood among the blacks who now form the vanguard of the mass drive for racial progress. They are angrier than ever, more impatient with social, economic and political servitude, and even more determined to revolutionize race relations and achieve full equality in American society. Although blacks were never in full agreement with all of King's tactics, they now look less longingly for any single...
Others have elected a career in medicine for two reasons that have been prevalent in other ethnic groups but were uncommon until recently among blacks. One is the prideful "my son the doctor" ambition. The other is the blacks' growing satisfaction in their own people's professional success, and their increasing sense of security visiting a black rather than a white doctor. This is a complete reversal of the older pattern: blacks used to take their minor ills to a black doctor, but seek a supposedly superior white practitioner for major medical matters because there were few black...
...Although the practice is uncommon in federal district courts, judges may assess certain costs of prosecution against convicted criminal defendants, except in a capital case...