Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...common agreement, the most senseless strike of the year was the stoppage of the Pennsylvania, the nation's largest railroad, by power-hungry Labor Boss Mike Quill, his 15,000 nonoperating Transport Workers...
When Britain set out to counter the six-nation European Common Market with a European free-trade area of its own-knitting together the Scandinavian countries, Portugal, Switzerland and Austria-Finland badly wanted to join to make this Outer Seven an Outer Eight. But President Urho Kekkonen, a longtime neutralist who stoutly insists that Finland's future must be based on Soviet-Finnish "friendship," said nothing doing. Russia, Kekkonen argued, would be displeased if Finland participated in a non-Communist trade bloc...
...debate was as muddled as little Bill's maneuver. For the moderates, T.U.C. Secretary Sir Vincent Tewson uttered common-sense warnings: "Unilateral disarmament would break up the Western alliance. We won't achieve peace by trying to save our own skins." "There's no love or charity in an H-bomb," replied Garment Worker Secretary J. E. Newton emotionally. "I only want to live in peace." Blurted Cousins: "NATO was originally created as a defense body, but there has been a gradual deterioration of that, till now NATO has become an aggressive body...
...Chaos. Then De Gaulle got in a few cold words about European unity. To suppose that effective political institutions can be built "outside and above the states," he declared flatly, "is a dream." Elliptically, he alluded to his own European dream: a French-led political confederation of the Common Market nations in which joint policy would be hammered out in periodic meetings of the Common Market premiers and reviewed by "an Assembly formed of delegates from national parliaments." (Snapped one German newspaper: "Instead of an integrated Europe. De Gaulle wants to restore a Europe of Fatherlands.") To get his scheme...
Protestants and Catholics, threatened by the common dangers of Marxist enmity and secular indifference, are in many places drawing closer and closer together in the modern world. At last week's pilgrimage to Roland's cottage, the bankers and farmers, miners, office workers and their wives, who are carrying on the faith of the embattled camisards, renewed their sense of what is now a faraway tradition, listening to a sermon out of doors from a collapsible pulpit, and studying such Huguenot relics as a clandestine pastor's flat hat that can fold into the shape...