Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...accurate and effective language through a number of well chosen images and pleasing conceits. His language is quite subtle, leaving itself susceptible to various interpretations, permitting the inclusion of various ideas. This flexibility can most obviously be demonstrated in a poem called He Wins! This piece is on a common theme; it begins on a deceptively insipid note...
...have always enjoyed golf and geishas," said Ikeda. "But they are far from the life of Japan's common people, and I am now going to live like a common man." He emphasized his friendship for the U.S. (two of his daughters are currently college shopping in California), setting as his prime policy goal "restoring America's confidence in Japan...
...ideology had little to do with the battle. As is their custom, big Japanese business firms, hoping for future friendly treatment in such matters as import licenses, taxes and government contracts, backed one or another of the eight party factions to the tune of $4,000,000. By common consent, it was the most corrupt convention in the party's short history. One happy delegate from southern Kyushu explained how the money went...
...common complaint about growth stocks is that they rarely, if ever, pay dividends, thus do not provide a steady income. But, says Sherman Fairchild, "this question of dividends has been given much more importance than is due it. If a stock doubles in value every five years, it actually pays a dividend of 20% a year if you sell half your stock at the end of a five-year period, and it is taxed as a long-term capital gain. There is no point in making artificial distinctions between stocks that pay income and those that do not pay income...
...weird words and phrases which are apt to confuse and scare them no end: Oedipus complex, inferiority complex, maternal rejection, sibling rivalry, conditioned reflex, schizoid personality, repression, regression, aggression, blah-blah, blah-blah and more blah-blah." By contrast, Dr. Kanner exhorted: "Let us, contemporary mothers, together regain that common sense which is yours, which has been yours before you allowed yourselves to be intimidated by would-be omniscient totalitarians." A follower of the late great Adolf Meyer (1866-1950), who founded the eclectic Hopkins school of psychiatry...