Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incorruptible nationalist unstained by liaisons with the French. That is why the French dislike him; it is also why he is the first Vietnamese politician (outside of Communist Ho, who also rose to power by stressing not his Communism but his anti-Frenchness) to attract any measure of popular support...
...permanent display in an American glassmaking exhibit of the New York Historical Society. Its embossed inscription: "E. C. Booz's Old Cabin Whiskey." With a new spot in the public's eye, the cabin-shaped vessel, its neck resembling a chimney, was likely to further the popular misconception that E.C.'s surname spawned the most common synonym for strong spirits...
...United States adopted a program of six-month training as an alternative to two years of active service, the shorter service would undoubtedly prove immensely popular, to the possible detriment of the regular army. The problem might be solved, however, by providing that men with only six-months of training would be recalled for emergencies before men who had completed their two-year tour of duty in the regulars. With the aid of pay reforms and new G.I. benefits, the Defense Department could make the regular army as attractive as six-month service. While the Administration recently raised...
...Yalie Daily, considered in some quarters as one of the best college newspapers in the country, has ceased publishing on Saturdays. "It was not the result of popular pressure," said Edward Allen Kent, chairman of the News, "but Saturday is a big, active day at Yale and a lot of students don't have time to read their Yalie Dailies. Discontinuance is a service to them...
...Blonde, well-curved Sheree North, who replaced blonde, well-curved Marilyn Monroe in 20th Century-Fox's How To Be Very, Very Popular, announced that she would play the role her way, not Marilyn's. Producer-Director-Writer Nunnally Johnson backed her up: "Sheree will not act like Marilyn. She has been instructed to play the entire part with her mouth shut...