Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roses to America from London.* The American Beauty is the flower of the District of Columbia, Georgia has the white Cherokee rose, Iowa the wild rose, and New York an unspecified variety of rose. But the indigenous goldenrod, despite its exaggerated reputation for producing hay fever, has been the popular candidate for U.S. national flower...
Behind the big smile that Pierre Mendès-France wore on his statesman's rounds last week was a disappointed and embittered man. After seven months in office, Mendès-France agrees with the popular estimate that his days as Premier are numbered-and that the number...
...doubtful that popular Queen Frederika, for all the ardor of her feminism, could do much to save the situation. The local bishop was not at all encouraging. "The whole mentality of the country would have to change," he said last week. Added a Greek feminist: "The women of Greece are not yet ready for economic independence. As long as they have to depend on men, they will be at their mercy...
DISARMAMENT and the abolition of atomic weapons can be so popular and plausible a cause that no Government could afford to miss it. Its underlying fallacies may be summarised as follows: Armaments are relative, not absolute. If Powers A and B reduce their armaments by, say, 10 per cent, their relative strengths, other things being equal, would remain the same. There would be no gain in terms of security. No limitation of armaments, whether at existing level or at an agreed lower level, is practicable, because the ratios between the Powers are inconstant. If A and B agree to limit...
...Hatoyama clambered back into his black Cadillac, a reporter asked him why he had come to Ise. Answered Hatoyama without hesitation: "As a renovation of popular sentiment...