Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small executive committees, 'drest in a little brief authority,' took a certain pleasure in humiliating the candidates who presented themselves for approval." But one advantage of constituency-hunting is that the party can sometimes place its brightest lights (who may not be men with the most popular appeal) in safe constituencies, thus assuring their reelection...
...their portion of the Arab sultanate of Morocco, the French were having so much trouble with the Arabs that they found it necessary to depose popular Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef and to replace him with the ineffective Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. The switch aroused widespread resentment in Spanish Morocco, a resentment which Franco's Fascist radio was not averse to exploiting...
...least expected: among the Boers themselves. Thirteen Nationalist professors and senior lecturers at the Afrikaans University of Pretoria condemned the Senate-packing bill on the grounds that it would violate the principles of the constitution, destroy the rights of minorities, change the political structure of South Africa without popular consent, possibly destroy the Union...
...France is the disunion of the unaffiliated." Almost 2,500,000 French men and women between the ages of 15 and 30 work in industry, earn pitifully small salaries, live in slums and have little hope for the future. Social security, introduced on a large scale by the Popular Front government in 1936 specifically to benefit workers, has in a paradoxical way also contributed to a split between youth and its elders in the labor movement. The vast wave of agitation for better conditions that swept through the early '30s was largely led by family breadwinners. Today, with allotments...
...what is to us most important: the theory and history of Music." Meritt is also the author of a curriculum whereby the Music major may receive departmental credit for taking three University and one conservatory course per year, and graduate in five years, but this plan has not proved popular...