Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...circumstances surrounding the President's candidacy invite the expression of deep Democratic doubts about the regency in prospect. Let it also be said, however, that such a campaign alone can hardly assure Democratic victory. There is vast popular affection for Ike. His Administration is vulnerable on many matters; but its record can only be challenged by a party which has a deep and passionate liberal faith. At this moment the Democratic Party is shadowed by the racist war of Jim Eastland, by the attempted gas "giveaway" of Lyndon Johnson and by Walter George's crusade against an expanded...
...long ago, when the bloodthirsty Mau Mau were terrorizing all of Kenya, there was no fiercer character in all the jungle than Dedan Kimathi, a scarred, stocky ex-clerk who had fought and jockeyed his way to the leadership of all the guerrillas. Not content with his popular title, "General Russia," Dedan capped his arrogance by calling himself Field Marshal Sir Dedan Kimathi and appointing a parliament of his own to preside over. The Nairobi government put a price of ?500 on his head...
Karamanlis won his victory without any noticeable help from British or American diplomacy. The opposition centered its fire on Greece's "humiliation" over Cyprus, needled Karamanlis unmercifully for "giving in to the British," for his "servility" to the U.S. Pointing to the Democratic Union's higher popular vote, Communist propagandists from Moscow to Budapest crowed that a majority of Greeks had "repudiated" Karamanlis' pro-Western government...
Greece has clearly found a new and vigorous leader. Though he failed to win a clear majority of the popular vote, the fact is that his nearest individual rival polled only 18% of the vote. In multiparty voting, no Greek Premier has taken office with a popular majority since 1928. And many a European Premier would be grateful for a working majority of 22 drawn from his own party alone...
With Fanfare. The trial of the peasant Liu is only a village echo of hundreds of mass trials, often involving thousands of blood-yelling participants, carried out in the big cities, usually at a popular sports ground, in which the victims are publicly denigrated, then publicly shot. (In one Shanghai mass trial, described by a Shanghai business man, relatives were allowed to take the body away in a wooden coffin after paying the cost of the bullets used to kill the victim-approximately $38.) There is an official phrase for this peculiarly Chinese variation of Communist terror: "Campaign...