Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...other side Cubans who want to continue being free men in a free world." Leaving Cuba after ten days, Russia's Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan had scored high, winning a trade treaty and a promise of resumed diplomatic relations. But there were many signs that the common Cuban found the new warmth between Havana and Moscow distasteful and even dangerous...
...father (three girls, two boys, a sixth child on the way). Listening to teachers talk about the problems of teaching science, he decided that high schools fall down on training good college students because they get ill-prepared prospects out of grade school. Karplus' solution: "A compulsory common curriculum in the elementary school...
...treating fevers. Last week, in Munich's Medizinische Wochen-schrift, Dr. Wolfgang-Dietrich Müller damned quinine with the results of a study on thousands of patients in Bielefeld. Among those who took quinine pills at the first sniffle, Asian flu was five to ten times as common as among those who let nature do its best. Quinine, he suggested, may actually be harmful by blocking the body's defense reactions. (In any case, quinine's effect in malaria is against the parasites themselves, so it is ineffective against fevers from other causes...
...moviemaker: Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa. The judgment is difficult to dispute. Despite heroic defects-and partly because of them-Ikiru ("To Live") is a masterwork of burning social conscience and hard-eyed psychological realism: the step-by-step, lash-by-Iash, nail-by-nail examination of the Calvary of a common...
...enemy that made General Douglas MacArthur a bedfast hospital casualty last week is as common as it is mysterious. Every man is born with a prostate gland -it is one of the clear, anatomical distinctions between the sexes. In childhood it serves no known purpose. In life's prime its role is obscure and minor: it secretes a fluid which mixes with the output of the testicles, apparently helps to increase the mobility of spermatozoa. In old age, when again it appears to be useless, the prostate is the site of ailments ranging from the trivial to cancer which...