Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communism had fervent working allies: the left wing of Italian Socialism, under Pietro Nenni, had joined the Reds in a formidable Popular Front...
After World War I, De Gasperi joined the Popular Party (Christian Democratic) founded by Don Luigi Sturzo. A Sicilian priest, Sturzo was convinced that Christianity, in order to survive in the 20th Century, must rely on "good deeds" of a new kind-social and political action...
President Picado, a feckless figurehead in a bright red shirt, was cooped up in the red-roofed Casa Presidencial. It was smart, stocky, 39-year-old Manuel Mora, leader of the Communist Vanguardia Popular, who ran things from the Bella Vista fortress. Last week he reached outside the capital and put one of his men in command of a government battalion which was moving against the rebels from coastal Playa Dominical. His forces had control of United Fruit banana plantations on the Pacific Coast, and were burning and looting. When Archbishop Victor Manuel Sanabria crossed the lines to bring...
Then they proceeded to tell me that they had heard Wallace had polled 11% to 11.5% of the popular vote in a "secret poll" I had taken for Henry Luce of TIME magazine...
...Safe Faces. Such restrictions limit stories almost entirely to three types: 1) a wife's (or husband's, or sister's, or laundress') eye view of how the popular favorite "really lives"; 2) the shopgirl-to-star Cinderella story; 3) discreet gossip-usually handled (for up to $1,000 a story) by Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons, Sidney Skolsky or some other expert big enough to flout studio censorship...