Word: pops
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fans by playing in movie houses, churches, synagogues and high-school auditoriums (one concert will be sponsored by the Katz Drug Co.; admittance: a cash-register receipt). Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera opens this week with Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, while in Fergus Falls, Minn. (pop. 14,000) a bravura rendering of Norwegian folk songs was given by a 70-voice male chorus, and 300 citizens were studying Handel's Messiah for a Christmas performance...
...jiggled with the joy of 1,800 students. Ringleaders wheeled up a great brass bell and banged away with demoniac glee. The whole town (pop. 59,500) welcomed the clangor. The Eagles of Abilene High School were whooping it up for their game with Big Spring, and when Texas high schools play football, their home towns take a holiday...
Mothers near Geiger Gulch switched their children to orange juice, and scrubbed them all over twice a day. Coal miners' unions worried about the air blown down their mine shafts. The big city of Manchester (pop. some 700,000) worried about its water, which comes from the edge of Geiger Gulch. Beef cattle sent to market from the region were marked with yellow paint so their thyroids would be destroyed right after slaughter. No one has been damaged yet (except the plant worker who was shaved), but all Britain has had a disquieting look at a kind of accident...
...Certain Smile showed a certain flair and skill, gave many readers the intriguing sensation of observing precocious children playing grown-up games. In Those Without Shadows, the kids are a little older and they are no longer saying bonjour to sadness; in the words of a current U.S. pop tune, they are shouting "Hello, Emptiness...
...vaudeville joke In addition to being the butt of tired jokes, Newark (pop. 465.600) used to be a sprawling municipal Skid Row choking in its own web of rail lines, express high ways and traffic-snarled streets. The sun, rising above Manhattan's skyscrapers ten miles away, glinted off broken bottles in the ring of slums pressing in on Newark's business district. A daily flood of commuters poured in-doubling the population-then poured back into the suburbs. At night those who remained in the city saw the streets grow sullen and creepy...