Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cities in the drought area have felt little effect so far, but many a smaller city and town has. Hamlin (pop. 1.800). in west Texas, has been out of water for more than a year, is importing it in railroad tank cars at a cost of 60? for 100 gallons. Both wheat and cotton crops in the area have been failing for three years, the town is surrounded by abandoned farms, and many houses and business buildings stand vacant...
...belonged to Martin and Merman. Mary Martin was never funnier than in her one-woman (and one-dress) fashion review that dealt with all the fads from 1903 to yesterday. And, perched on stools, both Mary and Ethel whipped through a rapid-fire medley of some of the best pop songs ever written. Televiewers hoped they would not have to wait another 50 years for so good a show. But if they do, it will be worth waiting...
...destroyed the college. Of Piedmont's 30-man faculty, 28 teachers have either resigned or been fired; so have eleven trustees. Meanwhile, enrollments have dropped from 290 to 109, and last fall only about 30 new students showed up as freshmen. Even the town of Demorest (pop. 1,166) has joined in the protest. Last May the town council unanimously passed a resolution demanding "the removal of James E. Walter from our midst...
President Laureano Gómez, a harsh, angry, forbidding man, ruled.Colombia (pop.: 12,000,000) with a will so stern that other men instinctively cringed and obeyed him. More than any other Colombian of this century, he dominated his country's life. But one afternoon last week, ten of the Colombian army's tanks clanked up and took positions around his modest suburban house, and then-simply, surprisingly-Laureano Gómez, 64, slid like a wilted leaf down history's drainpipe...
...little (pop. 260) Montreal, in North Carolina's thickly wooded Blue Ridge Mountains, 450 commissioners (delegates) of the 757,701-member Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern) met for their annual general assembly. No. 1 item on the agenda: a plan for merger with the Northern Presbyterians (2,500,000 members) and the United Presbyterians (300,000 members). The proposal had been discussed since 1938 and opposition to the idea was strong; in 1948 the General Assembly had postponed consideration of it for five years...