Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voters dealt a severe blow to Clement Atlee's Labor forces, who won the popular vote in the 1951 elections but lost out in the tabulation of House of Common seats. This time the Conservatives ran ahead in popular vote as well...
...faced with the difficult problem of how to fulfill is responsibility to both. It must, on the one hand, retain a certain minimum degree of intensity for the concentrator in what is by nature a highly technical branch of Humanities. On the other, as one of the most popular fields for the generally-educated, it must be nontechnical and historical enough for the non-concentrator...
...Roach series of one-and two-reel comedies, is back again, playing on TV in 61 U.S. cities. The success of the old films has been an eye opener to TVmen. In Manhattan, shown six times weekly in half-hour shows over WPIX, they have become the most popular afternoon feature for kids in the New York City area (almost a million and a half viewers...
...affable efficiency had won him a vice-presidency and the key post of corporation secretary. He survived the great man's purges partly by knowing when to keep his mouth shut. When he disagreed with Avery it was always in private and in a courteous manner. Barr is popular with the staff, has even won a Wolfson accolade: "In my book, he's tops...
...rich, landowner father had no use for poetry, and wanted his son to train for the law. Ovid obediently did, but he was far fonder of Rome's artist colony and social whirl. His love lyrics were popular with all but the Emperor Augustus, a dour Cromwellian sort, who found Ovid's lively spirit immoral and subversive. In A.D. 8, he banished the poet to lifelong exile in a Black Sea village, but not before Ovid had capped his fame with a masterpiece which never saw more than first-draft form, the Metamorphoses, or the Stories of Changing...