Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stevens County lines amount to only 2% of its statewide holdings) saw a rare chance to dramatize its side of the public v. private issue. It offered to buy the P.U.D. Brushed aside, its case was re-bolstered by a citizens' petition to put the problem to a popular vote-the first such power election in Northwest history...
...past three months of their eight-year war against Malaya's Communist terrorists, British and Malayan police and soldiers have been so ordered: before firing on suspects, they must call out the offer of a free pardon. The order stemmed from Malaya's recently elected popular government, which had the praiseworthy but perilous idea of starting the record of independent government by offering an amnesty to Communists. Last week the Communist guerrillas, after dickering briefly with the government about a truce , (they insisted on a Panmunjom-style international armistice commission, plus recognition as a legal political party), plainly...
Prompted by professional Communist organizers smuggled in from Red China, the students intimidate their teachers and bully their parents into adopting Communist attitudes. They provide mass support for popular demonstrations, and maintain a flow of anti-Western propaganda, e.g., against American movies, popular songs, clothes, books and ideas, all of which they call "yellow." A Chinese youth was recently stabbed for playing "yellow" songs -on his harmonica, while many have been beaten for attending "yellow" movies...
Nonetheless, Marquand has undoubtedly been greatly responsible for some outdated and rather absurd popular conceptions about the interests and caliber of the post-War Harvard undergraduate...
...variation of the plan is currently being used at Kenyon, and is being considered at Colgate, Illinois, and Wisconsin, Harding added. "The program is definitely popular in the mid-West," he said, "but the only drawback is finance...