Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organization's national "Divine Guidance" program, helped to prod several mental health organizations into forming the National Mental Health Association, and got more than 50 national organizations to join the Legion in an "All American Conference" to fight Communism. Says Craig: "I was in this before it was popular to do it . . . I was fighting Communists long before Bill Jenner thought about...
...nothing more than a word ought to be necessary to make them more careful in their behavior. Their actions have arisen from thoughtlessness more then anything else. No such pardonable carelessness, however, can be attributed to the there are not a few of them are anxious to take some popular reference book out overnight. They therefore adopt the plan of coming to the Library earlier in the day, capturing the book they want and hiding it in some safe place. When the time comes for taking reserved books out, they appear and triumphantly bear away the missing volume. Some...
...Superman in other countries: in England, Marlowe's Faustus; in Germany, Nietzshe's Ubermensch; in America, "Superman Comics." With his pipe clenched slightly crooked through an ironic smile, Professor Renato Poggioli warmed to his subject. And if the mark of a brilliant teacher is his ability to remain popular while insulting, threatening, and deliberately patronizing his students, then Poggioli must certainly be brilliant...
Only Emperor Hirohito himself could attract such attention. With a nationwide election less than a fortnight away, 72-year-old Ichiro Hatoyama seemed to be establishing himself as the most popular politician in postwar Japan...
...morale or progress of the country. In a word, the press is censored. Very mildly indeed, but censored." In Pérez Jiménez' view, "there must be a leader who shows the way without being perturbed by the necessity of winning demagogic popularity." He makes it plain that for the present he has no intention of trying to become a popular politician, or of relaxing the severity of his regime...