Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Independence Party of wing-collared Premier Olafur Thors, alone in wanting the Americans to stay, got the largest popular vote, up 5% from the election three years ago, but Iceland's complicated electoral laws gave it only 19 seats in the Althing (parliament), a loss of two seats. An alliance of Progressive and Social Democrat parties won a commanding 25 seats (two short of majority). Holding the balance of power with eight seats: the Communists. They are strong among fishermen (the Soviet bloc has replaced Britain as the leading market for Iceland's main crop, fish...
American, which began life in the days of the second Grant Administration as Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, embraced the whole rise of mass magazine journalism. Changed to American in 1906, it spent a muckraking youth publishing Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell and Ray Stannard Baker, made its biggest impact under Editor John Siddall, who pushed circulation from less than 500,000 to over 2,000,000 between 1915 and 1923 with the inspirational magic of success stories. In its time, American was the first to run Kipling's If and Edna Ferber's short stories, ranged...
...political master stroke as well. Two days before the election, Prado announced that "one of the first acts of my government will be to declare a general political amnesty and put an end to the proscription of political parties." In Peru the only significant proscribed party is APRA (American Popular Revolutionary Alliance), which was thrown out of power and outlawed in 1948 by the present President, Military Strongman Manuel...
...this the music of the future? Stockhausen, who is so immersed that he tends to forget to eat and shave, replies with a shrug: "It has little popular appeal. But that also goes for the conventional music that I compose...
...owner), said that it will expand its activities to special productions for TV and that it will dump on the TV market for the first time about 770 feature films and 900 shorts, all produced before 1949. Among the features-some of the nation's most popular movies in the past three decades -are Easter Parade, Mrs. Miniver, Random Harvest, Gaslight, National Velvet, The Great Ziegfeld, Boys Town, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Wizard of Oz, Big House, Grand Hotel, San Francisco, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Good Earth, Little Women, The Three Musketeers, David Copperfield, Treasure Island, A Tale...