Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communism at all," pontificated Tito. "The great Lenin would turn in his grave ..." Result: the Yugoslav standard of living, though lower than that of any other country in Europe outside the Iron Curtain, is higher than that of any country inside it. His Communism and his cops are not popular, but his defiance of Russia...
...Office of Far Eastern Affairs, but also General MacArthur, who sought him for chief counter-intelligence officer and then as chief historian of the occupation. "I said no thanks to that one," Reischauer smiles. It was teaching that he preferred--in small language classes even more than in the popular "Rice Paddies," History of Far Eastern Civilization...
...Testifying before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee, Emily Davie, editor of the star-spangled documentary history of the U.S., Profile of America, revealed the latest splurge of Washington nonsense. Though the U.S. Information Agency reported that the book has been the most popular U.S. history it has ever distributed abroad, a House Appropriations subcommittee headed by John f. Rooney (Dem.) of Brooklyn refused to allow 300,000 more copies to be sent overseas. The type of objection Author Davie was able to uncover: 1) a photograph entitled "A little red schoolhouse, built 1750," which the subcommittee insisted would give the Russians...
...same tearing roar of Meyer-Drake Offenhauser racing engines will racket above the oil-slick brick and asphalt. Once more, when the green flag drops, the wheeled buckets of power will whisk past the pace car into the first laps of the most popular sport spectacle in the U.S. Memorial Day will have come back to the Midwest with the 39th running of America's car-racing classic: the Indianapolis 500. The cars will be faster than ever this year, the drivers as daring, and the spectators will get their thrills. But for the first time in the memory...
...Between articles Taylor has written seven books, on everything from Winston Churchill to W. C. Fields, also writes occasional fiction and is a regular contributor to The New Yorker.* Many another successful free-lancer carves out a specialized area for himself, e.g., J.D. Ratcliff, science and medicine, Howard Whitman, popular sociology. But even the "specialists" go far afield if they come across an article idea that interests them-and the editor of a magazine they write...