Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitterness between the factions took up so much time that the conference never did get around to debating much of anything else. Attlee's personal choice was his old friend and onetime Colonial Secretary Jim Griffiths, a popular, trouble-soothing Welshman out of the mines. But the party was more likely to choose Deputy Leader Morrison or up-and-coming Hugh Gaitskell. Even Attlee himself felt, for his own reasons, that "Clem must go." At week's end he told one Labor leader in strictest confidence: "I will go at the end of the month...
Economics 1 is again the most popular course among College and Radcliffe undergraduate with an enrollment of 565, preliminary figures from Registrar Sergeant Kennedy showed yesterday...
...Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. "Time" magazine has, too. In its October 17 issue "Time" points out that Mr. Prochnow pronounces his name to rhyme with stock low (seems sort of self-disparaging for a banker), that he is one of Chicago's most popular after-dinner speakers, and that he has written such books as 1001 Ways to Improve Your Conversation and Speeches, Meditations on the Ten Commandments, and, most, recently, Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms. There is one good quality of Mr. Prochnow's however, that "Time" forgot to mention. This...
...most part, this anthology of "Americas second most popular after-dark activity" consists of short classics-from Stephen Crane's A Poker Game to John OHara's Where's the Game? -still worth more than a white chip. Some of them, though, seem to begin after the deal has started and end before the reader gets his fifth card. Best of the lot, perhaps, is Somerset Maugham's Straight Flush, a poignant tale of a man burdened with failing eyesight, and not idiocy, who chose the one time in 64,973 chances to misread his hand...
Karamanlis had filled five Cabinet posts since 1935, built a popular following in his most recent, Minister of Public Works, but was not considered an influence within the dominant Rally party. The new Premier drew on the Rally party for his new Cabinet and said he would try to form a "permanent administration." But opposition groups immediately threatened to resign from Parliament unless he called for early elections. Much neutralist feeling was sweeping through Greece, and some doubted that the Greek Rally could long outlive its creator...