Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prosperity. But hope is one thing, success is quite another, and party images are often based on long-held feelings and fears that remain almost unchanged in the face of current facts. Thus, by 1952, after three wars under Democratic administrations, the G.O.P. had established itself in the popular mind as the party most likely to keep world peace. The seven peaceful years of the Eisenhower Administration have done little to change that image for better or worse. Last week a Gallup poll showed these results on the question of which party is most likely to keep...
After breakfast, Vag rolled up Bow Street and went bump, bump, bump into Sever for his first class. As a non-Honors junior in English, Vag had chosen three large English lecture courses and one of the more popular History courses. None of these had sections or discussion periods; a fact which had formerly dismayed Vag, but which now rather cheered him. Resting against one wall, his recording mechanism purring quietly as the professor spoke, Vag felt a contentment he had never known before...
...Conservative victory, although it represents a popular vote majority of less than 6 per cent over the Opposition, is decisive in Parliament. With 28,000,000 British voters giving 365 seats to the Conservatives, 258 to Labor and six to the Liberals, the Tory majority was nearly doubled to a surprising 101 seat advantage...
...pretentious possibilities in their hope for the fast-stepping of the youth vanguard ("At the Revolution, I will be there"). It is difficult to think of a western parallel for this collective identification, unless it would be the unplanned social cast of the "teenager", given group status by popular song, and whose wayward extremes think they are fulfilling a public image "Get your knife, Freddy...
...exactly what hypnosis can and cannot do. Over 200 Harvard and Radcliffe students are participating in these tests along with students from other local schools. The results of these studies have tended to remove much of the mysterious fog that surrounds hypnosis and to clear up many of the popular misconceptions...