Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bess Truman expressed a popular sentiment: in frustration at the continued defiance of the U.S. Government by Arkansas' Democratic Governor Orval Eugene Faubus, the cry echoed across the land for the Eisenhower Administration to "do something." But the emotional swelling ignored a central point: the Administration was indeed doing something -as it should be done. It was keeping the issue of Little Rock integration off the political stump and in the courts of the U.S. There last week Orval Faubus lost the showdown...
...final count of last week's election showed that Adenauer and the Socialists together tallied an impressive 81% of the popular vote. In defeat, the Socialists actually increased their share of the popular vote from 28.8% in 1953 to 31.75%. Under Germany's proportional-representation system, this gives the Socialists just over one-third of the Bundestag's 497 seats, or enough to block any constitutional changes. Of all the other parties, only Reinhold Maier's right-of-center Free Democrats, who won 41 seats, got more than the minimum 5% necessary to be represented...
...swivel-necked softball fans saw a faster, flashier brand of ball than many a big-league booster has seen all season. The slow, playground pastime of Depression days has speeded into an organized sport of fierce and popular competition. There is nothing soft about it; even the big, hand-filling softball itself is hard as a regulation baseball...
...Many a braggart state has filed paternity claims for softball, but the most popular story blames a Minneapolis fireman named Louis Rober, who organized the game back in the 1890s to keep other firemen out of trouble...
...shape the news, it is unchallenged by any newer or better technique for exploiting TV's potential or overcoming its shortcomings. The combination of brains, integrity, attractiveness and showmanship that makes him such an effective journalist also establishes Murrow, in his role of star on the trivial but popular Person to Person, as one of TV's five top-rated entertainers...