Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passionate conviction that it endangered the nation, or fight the decision, with little chance of winning, and at the cost of ostracism by many of his fellow scientists. He chose to fight, joined forces with Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss in the struggle that pitted them against popular Robert Oppenheimer and split the ranks of U.S. scientists for years afterward...
...city-manager-type Board of Directors tried hard to keep Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus, and indeed the whole segregation issue, out of the election. They even went to Faubus and begged him not to interfere. But Orval Faubus, hoping for a vote he might claim as popular approval for his wild attempt to prevent integration at Little Rock's Central High School, gave no promises. In fact, the word soon went out that his aides were on the telephone, whipping up support for the seven candidates supported by the segregationist Capitol Citizens' Council (included were the president...
...fill a long and deep felt need. And it would have as much breadth--and perhaps more depth--than any course now offered in the General Education Program. At present, the extremely limited readings offered in Greek and Latin authors in the Gen Ed courses are among the most popular selections...
...conceive of a divinity school," White said, "in which professors would expound Judaism, Catholicism, Protestantism and some of the less popular religions," and also where "atheists and agnostics would expound their views...
...frothy, picture-filled tabloid that has the biggest circulation (3,000,000) of any newspaper on the Continent, pays little attention to politics and only skimpily covered Germany's election campaign. He launched it only five years ago after a London trip exposed him to the British popular press. To build readership, he borrowed a bag of tricks from U.S. and British newspapering, e.g., traffic-safety contests, horse-drawn coach rides for every couple married in Hamburg...