Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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With a single, eloquent evocation of the common sense and grandeur that should be France, Charles de Gaulle last week changed the mood of his nation. Until he delivered his ringing "no retreat" speech (see below), France had been drifting seemingly unchecked toward civil war in Algeria. After he spoke, there was hope-and growing assurance-that the situation could be saved...
...reactionary. My great grandfather was on the barricades. I'm a plain revolutionary!" His egalitarian ancestor died in Paris in 1851 in a futile defense of the Second Republic against the incoming imperial regime of Louis Napoleon. Lagaillarde's principal resemblance to him is a common taste for barricades, but his great grandfather died trying to maintain the constituted authority of the state, not to overthrow...
...year-old "Table of Kindred and Affinity" in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer is still the basic framework of Britain's complex marriage and divorce laws. Adapted from John Calvin's zealous compilation of Mosaic laws and medieval mores, it stipulates who may not marry whom...
...Victims have many common characteristics, and eventually develop organic complications that cut their life expectancy by as much as 20 years...
Henning expressed his approval of the Faculty-student committee for having "the best interests of College drama in mind." Selection of plays, he noted, will not be made by a technical vote, with each student and Faculty member having one ballot. The committee will seek instead to reach a common consent...