Word: communality
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Army habit, generally held himself coolly aloof from the White House press; Jack Kennedy, whose first job was as a reporter for the old International News Service, is far more accessible to the press, numbers several reporters among his closest personal friends. But White House reporters operate on a communal code, are likely to raise Cain with Salinger when favoritism is shown...
...novelist from his experience, without which life would never become literature. But while he is still the close observer, Durrell sets down much of the immemorial daily life of the islanders, from grape-treading to olive-pressing, from the festivals of miracle-accredited saints to the circular communal ritual of the Greek dances, which by some law of emotional gravity galvanizes spectators into performers...
...Pakistanis cling precariously to the rocky mountain flanks-Nehru's hackles rose. To Ayub's suggestion that India by now ought not to be afraid to accept the U.N.'s recommendations for a plebiscite, Nehru replied that the plebiscite would only stir up ''communal feeling"-Nehruese for the probability that Kashmir's predominantly Moslem population, even after 13 years of living under Indian rule, would still vote to join their fellow Moslems in Pakistan...
...communal rooms below-refectory, library, oratory and classrooms -Corbusier's creative fancies take over in a profusion of pyramids, cubes and parallelepipeds, doors in solid primary colors against the white concrete walls. Water pipes (painted bright blue) and electrical conduits are everywhere exposed. The building's insides, says Corbu, are nothing to be ashamed...
...promise of jobs at salaries ranging between $300 and $600 a month-big money in Greece. Once they got to the Dominican Republic, they were ordered to draw uniforms and arms as members of Trujillo's foreign legion. When they refused, they were thrown naked into communal and solitary cells at La Victoria prison outside Ciudad Trujillo. They ate slop, were beaten unconscious with clubs and wire whips, scalded with boiling water. Treatment got better when they agreed to try soldiering, but after two months they still refused to enlist and were tossed back into jail. The Greek embassy...