Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exploring Brazil for deposits of radioactive minerals. The U.S. embassy in Rio first learned of the turnabout by reading about it in the local newspapers. Brazil's troublemaking Communists, who could never have brought off such a coup by themselves, whooped with delight. Bannered the Communist daily, Imprensa Popular: HISTORICAL VICTORY
Madrigals were the popular songs of Renaissance intelligentsia. Five or six singers joined their voices in these minor gems; they sighed contrapuntally of love unrequited and requited, moaned of the terrors of death and giggled at impertinent conceits...
...York. Two-term Democratic Senator Herbert Lehman, 78, decided last week that he would not run for reelection, gave his endorsement to New York City's popular Mayor Robert Wagner, who, at week's end, had no real opposition. On the Republican side, the leading contender is G.O.P. Attorney General Jacob Javits, 52, the only Republican to win a statewide office in 1954. New York's November outlook: nip, tuck, and rough...
...will hang on to its front runners -The $64,000 Question, still the most popular and lively of the lot, which continues to bounce contestants over to The $64,000 Challenge...
...royalties seldom come to more than 3? a composition. In the modern-music field, 10,000 copies mean a rare bestseller, bring only $300. But the mere fact that a work is put on permanent vinyl plastic makes its composer seem more substantial. One of today's most popular contemporary LPs, Colin Mc-Phee's Tabuh-Tabuhan, had a grand total of three performances between its creation, 20 years ago, and the time it came out on records (Mercury) this summer. Since then, at least half a dozen groups have made plans to perform it. Most popular modern...