Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Assembly as it tried to choose between a "revolutionary" or a "constitutional" successor to the presidency. "A bas Déjoie!" shouted the throng. Déjoie hastily called off the dying strike. Unimpressed, the Assembly chose for provisional President a neutral lawyer named Franck Sylvain. It was a popular choice: as a judge during Magloire's regime, Sylvain earned a reputation for courage by ruling in an important lawsuit against a presidential favorite...
...convicts described their "diffewculties." Asked if he had a weapon, one protested without a break in gum-chewing rhythm: "I didn't have no weapon. I just had a knife and one of them .22-caliber things." Why was one inmate beaten up? "He was not too popular. He was classified as a rat if you wanna put it that way." Governor Clyde, standing shoulder-deep in convicts, agreed that the grievances were "submitted in sincerity" and "they'll be considered." As the camera pulled back, a convict muttered something inaudible, and the broadcast ended with this exchange...
Middle-sized, plumpish John von Neumann was a man people liked on sight. Those who barely knew him called him Johnny; he might have been a popular restaurateur or candy-shop proprietor. He was, instead, the greatest mathematician of his time. His ideas and personality had a profound effect on today's scientific...
...Cambridge Civic Association, represented in the School Committee by minority member Judson T. Shaplin '42, associate dean of Education, has protested the appointments as "illegal" and collected over 11,000 signatures, which by law require a popular referendum on the subject...
Despite the large number of unexciting songs that achieve popularity, it cannot be doubted that popular music is better than ever, a dynamic art form in an artistically unproductive decade...