Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orderliness that keeps warlords from swooping down on farmers to steal their harvests. But in a nation that has only a paper-thin economic surplus to invest in industrial growth, a loss of mass enthusiasm and a consequent drop in production could be no less deadly than active popular resistance...
...That popular Eastern melodrama. Here Come the Generals, which has played so successfully during recent weeks in Pakistan, Burma, Thailand and Iraq, opened to thunderous applause last week in Khartoum, capital of the Sudan...
...since he was swept into office on an anti-Socialist wave, the Prime Minister has given his country prosperity, has whipped rising inflation, boosted pensions, introduced a national health service, proved a stout friend of the U.S. and Britain. But stolid, unimaginative Bob Menzies himself has never been personally popular. His chronic testiness ("He must be drunk or paid to come here as a pest," he angrily shouted at a heckler) has not helped him much. When his car was spattered with eggs in Sydney, even the usually progovernment Melbourne Herald blandly refused to remonstrate. "At election time," it said...
...Popular Opinion. The north coast Nicaro mines, source of 11 % of the free world's nickel, are out of production: last week government bombers, aiming for the rebels, instead hit Nicaro warehouses containing $500,000 worth of machinery. The sugar crop. Cuba's economic lifeblood. 75% of which comes from rebel-saturated Oriente. Camagüey and Las Villas provinces, is largely in Castro's hands, as the January harvest approaches...
...several Masters have indicated they will not take any more. In the smaller fields, there is no reason why tutors affiliated with a House should have to tramp back and forth between the Houses and the Quad when they could handle mixed groups in the Houses, but in the popular Radcliffe fields, such as English, History and Lit, and Social Relations, there would be girls left over after the Houses had taken all they could...