Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since Ike's previous news conference, he and the Democratic Congress had marched down the hill for a ballot-box reckoning, surprisingly had marched back up again for two more years together. Yet he was midway through the session before reporters broke into the world-affairs discussion to pop the first election question: What plans does Ike have for bringing "a certain group" of his party in Congress (the Old Guard) into the fold of "modern Republicanism...
...great Csepel iron and steel works, strike leaders told the Russians they had mined all the factories and that if the Russians began shooting workers they would blow up the whole industrial area. At Miskolc (pop. 200,000), coal miners set up a volunteer organization to keep order, mined only enough coal to keep kindergartens and hospitals heated. At Gyor, when some workers said they would go back to work, the town's bakers told them there would be no bread...
...Turkey (pop. 24,110,000). Hates and fears Russia, whether Russia is Communist or not. A secularized Mos lem state, very friendly to the U.S., Turkey is the eastern anchor of NATO. Its 500,000-man army is the area's best. Sides with Britain over Cyprus. Turks dislike Nasser, chiefly because he opened the door to the Russians in the Middle East...
Afterward, in defending Carlisle against charges of chicanery, Coach Pop Warner said, "The public expects the Indian to employ trickery and we try to oblige...
...members of the Porgy troupe hoped for caviar and good company. They were provided with yoghurt, raspberry pop and the supervision of goodwill-goons from the Soviet Ministry of Culture. The Russians were strong on culture, and they stopped, as nye kulturnyi, a game of tonk (a variation of rummy) that had been going more or less continuously since the company played Buenos Aires. "Old Squareville!" said an embittered American. "Home for dead cats...