Word: popped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Howling in from the Pacific, Typhoon Vera last week smashed Japan with winds up to 135 m.p.h. The industrial city of Nagoya (pop. 1,300,000) was plunged into darkness, water rose in the streets, and the collapse of an apartment building pinned 84 in the wreckage. Eighteen miles south at Handa (pop. 68,000), gale winds and high seas crashed a 1,000-ton ship against the sea wall, and the raging ocean burst through, sweeping away 250 homes. In central Japan, rain-choked streams surged over their banks, and 85 bodies were taken from the raging Nagara River...
...Latin America; Liberals effectively broke the Roman Catholic Church's vast temporal powers. Not destroyed was a great religious hunger. Last week in Honduras, a Liberal President, Ramón Villeda Morales, was treating the republic to the greatest wave of Catholic revivalism that the tiny, primitive country (pop. 1,800,000) ever...
...most improbably successful tunesmith in the U.S. last week was a genial, buckskin-fringed character out of Timbo, Ark. (pop. 100) named Jimmie Driftwood. Six Driftwood royalty-winners-Soldier's Joy, Battle of Kookamonga, Tennessee Stud, Sal's Got a Sugar Lip, The Battle of New Orleans, Sailor Man-were riding the sales charts of pop or country-and-western tunes; in other versions most of them are sung and strummed by Driftwood himself...
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Last week, with the patient making a normal recovery, the citizens of Spring Valley (pop. 5,000) found a way to show Dr. Jacobs their gratitude. They chipped in to help buy the hospital a $350 defibrillator so that other patients' lives would not have to depend on an electric cord, a coffee spoon...